Subject: Re: bug#76120: This feature is not about "sharing", or a "native" anything.

From: Visuwesh <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 19:25:58 +0530

[சனி மார்ச் 15, 2025] Visuwesh wrote:

>>> I must sound like a parrot: but could you please consider making
>>> filenames into file: URLs?  This would avoid the number of
>>> file-exists-p
>>> checks, which is a worthy goal IMO.  Remote files could be checked
>>> with
>>> (file-remote-p default-directory).
>>
>> Could you share more details about file: please?
>
> The proposal for file: is mostly so that the backend doesn't have to
> second-guess what the item type is.  It could similarly be a cons cell
> such as (file . FILENAME).

To clarify this a bit more: I would like the ability to send the
filename of a file, but not the file itself.  With the current
file-exists-p check, it would always send the file.