Re: file-relative-name and remote files

[Lars Hansen]

> I think it is not a good idea to change the filename syntax in such a
> way, for that would mean that people can't use filenames with colons
> in them anymore.  That would be too drastic, I think.
>
> Our BibTeX citation keys are of the form Smith:95, and we store the
> corresponding fulltext documents in files named after the citation
> key.
Clearly colons in names of files in directories other than root should
be allowed. Tramp should not barf, it should just call the normal
handler. Would that not work?