>>>> nelson(a)media.mit.edu (Nelson Minar) (NM) writes:
NM> It's a problem that // means something special in emacs: could you
NM> maybe special case "://" to mean something different to handle URLs?
NM> (// isn't common to all URLs, btw, although it's typical for many of
NM> the ones that name things that look like files).
NM> How did emacs work under Apollo, where // in a filename meant
NM> something special to the OS?
In emacs 20.3 on Window NT/95, // also is used for network addresses,
like
//machine/dir/file/
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