Separately, after further testing, it seems that ":" named files behaves very strangely on Cygwin. The file "test:abc" can be referenced even though you cannot see it anywhere but just "test" when "ls". This seems to explain my 'hidden' file query when using ange-ftp earlier. I'll check that on the Cygwin list.
Many thanks, P.
I do see your point. Solutions could be also to provide a Tramp function a user could apply via customizing `make-backup-file-name-function', or to implement `find-backup-file-name'. First alternative has more charm to me.
Or convince Emacs maintainers to handle Tramp file names as well. Currently they are doing the following (see files.el, function `make-backup-file-name-1'):
;; Normalize DOSish file names: convert all slashes to ;; directory-sep-char, downcase the drive letter, if any, ;; and replace the leading "x:" with "/drive_x".
Best regards, Michael.
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