From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 50387@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50387: Possible bug in Tramp or in completions
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 16:34:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <75d560562c0ab9fd3910@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8735qi3yn0.fsf@gmx.de>
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your answer!
>> I analyzed this bug a bit further, and the root problem is that
>>
>> (tramp-completion-handle-file-name-all-completions "" "/")
>>
>> returns ("sshfs:" "ssh:" "sshx:" ...) when tramp-default-method is
>> "ssh", and ("scp:" "scpx:" ...) when tramp-default-method is "scp".
>>
>> This happens because "possible methods" are added to the result in
>> tramp-completion-handle-file-name-all-completions.
>>
>> Therefore completion-substring-try-completion finds that "ssh:" is
>> already a complete match.
>>
>> I'm not sure how this bug should be fixed. Removing these two lines
>> from that function fixes the bug, but that's not really optimal because
>> in that case /s TAB does not show "ssh:", "sshfs:" and "sshx:" anymore.
>> Not displaying these completions is perhaps better than not displaying
>> hostnames, however.
>
> Tramp doesn't know anything about completion-styles, it just implements
> file-name-all-completions and file-name-completion. Cutting valid
> results from those functions seems to be wrong, IMO.
>
The problem is not that results are cut in this case, the problem is that
because the return value of
tramp-completion-handle-file-name-all-completions includes the methods
("sshfs:" "ssh:" "sshx:"), some completion mechanisms do not look further
when "ssh:" is entered and the user hits TAB to list host candidates:
- substring considers that there is nothing more to complete because
"ssh:" is one completion candidate
- partial-completion and flex consider that "ssh:" is not complete, but
the completion candidates they propose are "ssh:", "sshx:" and "sshfs:".
For the case of the substring completion mechanisms (i.e. after
(add-to-list 'completion-styles 'substring),
(completion-substring-try-completion "/ssh:" #'completion-file-name-table
#'file-exists-p 5)
returns t with tramp-default-method set to "ssh" (and therefore the
completion system does not try further), and nil with tramp-default-method
set to "scp" (and therefore the completion system does try further, and
eventually finds the hosts).
Without
;; Possible methods.
(setq result (append result (tramp-get-completion-methods m)))
in tramp-completion-handle-file-name-all-completions, all completion
mechanisms do what a user would expect, namely list host candidates.
(But the tramp methods are not shown anymore in the completion candidates
after e.g. /s TAB.)
It seems to me that adding methods (which are not file names),
conditionally to tramp-default-method, to file-name-all-completions, is
not TRT, hence this bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-06 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-05 0:43 bug#50387: Possible bug in Tramp or in completions Gregory Heytings
2021-09-05 12:49 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-06 8:18 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 16:34 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-09-06 16:59 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 17:26 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-06 17:41 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 18:22 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-06 19:39 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 20:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-06 20:31 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 20:55 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 12:58 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-07 13:23 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 13:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 14:23 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-07 16:46 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 17:31 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-07 17:51 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 18:04 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-07 19:02 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 19:41 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-08 7:28 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-08 7:26 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-08 7:57 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-08 14:25 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-07 13:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-07 14:31 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2021-09-06 20:49 ` Michael Albinus
2021-09-06 21:39 ` Gregory Heytings
2021-09-07 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-07 11:29 ` Michael Albinus
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