> As such, I want to propose an alternate tag to indicate our own
> paths:
>
> "/!/"
Seconded.
I still do not like it at all. It's completely different from anything
that is done out there. There is a quasi-standard for doing such
things, which involves using /protocol:, and that's reasonable,
widespread and people are accustomed to it. We do not want to introduce
Yet Another Nice Convention.
We should instead raise the problem on the internal Emacs developers
lists, and then contact to Xemacs developers (or the other way around,
if you care more about Xemacs), and try to find a real solution.
Emacs should have a general hook for /[^/]+:.* filenames, where [^/]+ is
the protocol. Then, different packages could register to that hook and
tell it which protocol they do manage.
We could conceivably care about a compatibility package, but the main
road should not be built to work around problems in how ange-ftp and efs
are built.
I volunteer to raise the question on Emacs lists, if I am asked to.
