Re: Strange error -- Solved!

[Michael Albinus]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

>> You can use "/:/FreeMIDI:USB Installer Log" to open this file, I
>> think.
>
> Oops, I've simply forgotten that this exists.
>
>> There is a corresponding entry for "/:" in file-name-handler-alist.
>
> But it doesn't work yet:
>
> file-name-handler-alist's value is 
> (("\\.Z\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'\\|\\.bz2\\'\\|\\.tgz\\'\\|\\.g?z\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'"
>  . jka-compr-handler)
>  ("^/[^/]*$" . tramp-completion-file-name-handler)
>  ("\\`/[^/:]+:" . tramp-file-name-handler)
>  ("\\`/:" . file-name-non-special))
>
> The entry for `file-name-non-special' must be before the Tramp related
> entries. I'll fix it tonight in Tramp CVS.

Finally, it looks like it doesn't matter where `file-name-non-special'
is located, because file name quotation is managed another way. It
seems to be rather a bug in `find-file-noselect'. I've sent a bug
report to the Emacs maintainers.

Best regards, Michael.