Re: defadvice file-expand-wildcards ad-do-it value

[Michael Albinus]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> But this special Tramp syntax is very uncommon in GNU Emacs; I
>> doubt that such a change will find its way into Emacs.
>
> Are there any other remote things that might use a ? * or [ into their
> identifier?  Part of a username, filename, hostname or something?  The
> odd * in old mainframe stuff?

Indeed. IPv6 addresses are encoded like this: "/ssh:[::1]:.emacs". So
maybe it is worth you offer your patch on emacs-devel.

Thanks for reminding me, and best regards, Michael.