Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:57:36 -0400
> 
> > What happens if you have a file name like /cygdrive/d/foo/bar.tar.gz,
> > where /cygdrive/d/ is the Cygwin magic?
> 
> That's just like Tramp and ange-ftp: it will first go through jka-compr
> which will then pass /cygdrive/d/foo/bar.tar.gz again through the
> handlers (but this time while disabling itself, so the cygwin magic
> can happen).

Hmm.. doesn't this depend on the specific handler?  For example, a
handler that needs to stat the file will need to deal with the Cygwin
thing first, to get a real file name, right?