Re: rssh.el interactions with ange-ftp/efs
>But most importantly, URL syntax is *standard*.
Well, backward compatibility also matters, and I'm willing to wager a
pizza that Emacs has had the "//" feature before URLs were created.
Yes, backwards compatibility is important, and emacs was there first.
Happily, you can leave the old emacs // behaviour and support URLs
that use // as well; simply special case the URL syntax. If the line
is a URL, interpret it that way, otherwise go back to the old // behaviour.
1. /some/path//root/path old behaviour
2. ftp://nelson＠localhost/foo/bar URL!
Extra points if you can type a URL without having to kill the line first.
3. /some/path//ftp://nelson＠localhost/foo/bar URL!
4. /some/path/ftp://nelson＠localhost/foo/bar URL!, maybe better.
This all complicates the parsing a bit, but I think it is consistent.
Leave out 3 or 4 or both if it's too hard.
Unless something new comes up in this discussion, this is the last I
have to say on this topic. I don't have time to implement this
solution myself and I've kibbitzed all I have the right to do.
nelson(a)media.mit.edu
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