Re: tramp (2.0.38); Followup to Hard times with XEmacs ...

[Skip Montanaro]

    Friedrich> after setting tramp-unified-filenames to nil and running 
    Friedrich> C-x C-f /[ssh/address@hidden I got the error message 
    Friedrich> that this is not a valid tramp filename 

Shouldn't you have set tramp-unified-filenames to t?

    Friedrich> while setting tramp-unified-filenames to t and running
    Friedrich> C-x C-f 
    Friedrich> /ssh:address@hidden:/home/frido/.zshrc
    Friedrich> I got the error message that the directory containing this
    Friedrich> path does not exist.

That sounds more like it grokked the filename syntax.  What does your tramp
debug buffer show?  Does it show an attempt to ssh to h1?

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