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Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing)
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Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing) |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Oct 2019 23:51:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
> Indeed. When I complete "/ssh:f TAB" with one of `emacs21', `emacs22'
> or `basic' in `completion-styles', I see the call
>
> (file-name-all-completions "ssh:f" "/")
>
> which performs host name completion in Tramp. For the other completion
> styles, there is just
>
> (file-name-all-completions "ssh" "/") ;; for `partial-completion'
>
> or
>
> (file-name-all-completions "" "/") ;; for `substring' and `flex'
>
> or even no call for `initials'.
Would you consider that a bug?
At least from a user perspective, it seems odd that more powerful
completion styles restrict the completion candidates, though I do
understand the technical details that lead to the observed results.
> So I have added the following sentence to the Tramp manual:
>
> User name and host name completion is activated only, if file name
> completion has one of the styles ‘basic’, ‘emacs21’, or ‘emacs22’.
> *Note (emacs)Completion Styles::.
Good. (But it would be better if it wasn't needed.)
Bye,
Tassilo
- Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Tassilo Horn, 2019/10/24
- RE: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Drew Adams, 2019/10/24
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Michael Albinus, 2019/10/24
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Tassilo Horn, 2019/10/24
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Tassilo Horn, 2019/10/25
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Michael Albinus, 2019/10/25
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing),
Tassilo Horn <=
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Michael Albinus, 2019/10/27
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Stefan Monnier, 2019/10/27
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Tassilo Horn, 2019/10/28
- Re: Tramp shows no user/host completions (solved while writing), Michael Albinus, 2019/10/28