Subject: Re: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:36:50 +0200

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Paul,

> By "Tramp quoting" I was referring to the technique you used in
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28156#23 to create a
> symlink whose name starts with "~", by prefixing the name with
> "/:/tmp/". I don't know why the "/:" is there ...

See the lower part of (info "(elisp) File Name Expansion")

Best regards, Michael.