Michael Sperber <sperber(a)deinprogramm.de&gt; writes: > Michael Albinus <michael.albinus(a)gmx.de&gt; writes: > >> The "added colon" is optional. If you have set tramp-default-method, >> you don't need a method specification in the file name, and the syntax >> looks pretty like EFS. > > ... but I assume we'd be OK if that default method were "ftp", right? Yes. But given that everybody might have her own preferences, the XEmacs package retrieval functions shall use (let ((tramp-default-method "ftp")) ...)

And even then there might be surprises with Tramp 2.1, when somebody uses obscure tramp-default-proxies-alist settings.