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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | bug#50387: Possible bug in Tramp or in completions |
Date: | Mon, 06 Sep 2021 21:39:06 +0000 |
The completion tables's API only directly support prefix completion. So in order to implement `substring` style, when the minibuffer.el code sees a request for completion of "/a" it will request all the possible prefix-completions for "/" and then filter them based on the presence of "a" in there.
Thank you. Now I understand the bug better: when the user types / TAB, Tramp returns the default methods (scp: scpx:), when the user types /sc TAB, Tramp returns the methods starting with 'sc', i.e. scp: scpx:, and when the user types /scp: TAB, Tramp again returns the default methods scp: scpx:, because it is again at '/', and the substring completion backend concludes that "scp:" cannot be completed further, which is wrong.
With my patch, when the user types / TAB, Tramp does not return the default methods anymore, and therefore they are not returned after /scp: TAB either. So IMO the patch does TRT, and fixes both the behavior with substring and flex completion styles.
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