Subject: Re: bug#20744: shell-quote-argument in Emacs 24.5 and Emacs 25 on Windows cannot figure out path correctly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 19:22:31 +0300

> From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 17:14:33 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> >> That doesn't include ":", but then there's those "really weird shells",
> >> >> whatever they may be...
> >> >
> >> > Perhaps we could have a branch for Bash only.
> >> 
> >> Tramp would happily join that branch, for "really weird shells on a
> >> remote host".
> >
> > Meaning you are for such a change, or against it?  (Sorry, it wasn't
> > clear from what you said.)
> 
> Bash is always a pain to handle, there are exceptions in Tramp's code
> for that. But having a branch for this is not realistic for Tramp,
> because Tramp doesn't distinguish remote shells, it only expects that
> they speak a bourne-shell dialect.
> 
> My message was rather a sigh than a request.

How about Stefan's suggestion to stop quoting the colon and see if
anybody hollers?  Are you okay with that, or will you holler?