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Has anybody found any way to make Emacs minibuffer input, such as in find-file, correctly detect/recognise and access standard ftp-urls such as

ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/

instead of having to, by hand, convert it to to emacs's own format

/ftp:anonymous@gcc.gnu.org:/pub/gcc/infrastructure/

before typing it into the minibuffer.

This would make Emacs even more accessible as a file manager when transparently working with FTP directories.

Nordlöw
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  • The decoding tips in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/611831/how-to-url-decode-a-string-in-emacs-lisp?rq=1 may be a good start. – Nordlöw Aug 05 '12 at 14:59

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would like to see that as a feature request sent by

M-x report-emacs-bug

Andreas Röhler
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