bug#5447: closed by Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> (Re: bug#5447: 23.1.91; load-file fails for C:/the-file.el.gz)

[Michael Albinus]

Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> At least it looks to me from the pattern that this must happen there too:
>
>    ("\\`\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)?/[^/]*\\'" . tramp-completion-file-name-handler)
>
> Perhaps the right thing to do is to only match "/ssh:", "/ftp:",
> "/telnet:" etc and only bring in Tramp if those things matches?

We are speaking about the tramp-***completion***-file-name-handler. This
is responsible to expand "/s <TAB>" to "/ssh:" (and alike).

Best regards, Michael.