Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

Hi Michael,

>> I've improved the patch, and I've committed it to master. It works now
>> for all different Tramp syntaxes as well as for all completion styles
>> except `initials' and `shorthand'. Likely, these two are not so relevant
>> for file name completion.
>
> This breaks Emacs horribly: in emacs -Q (require 'tramp) and M-x dired RET
> for example:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Searching for program" "No such file or directory" "ls")
>   (call-process "ls" nil nil nil "--dired")
>   ...
>   (dired-noselect "~/" nil)

I'm very sorry about this. Strangely, I cannot reproduce the problem
with your recipe.

> All programs seem to be gone, shells etc.  I thought my Laptop had died!
> Rebasing with your commit omitted fixes the problem.

Does the appended patch fixes this for you?

> Michael.

Best regards, Michael.