From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: "Kévin Le Gouguec" <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com>
Cc: 45402@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 20:31:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87im8pfzsb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878s9mi13q.fsf@gmail.com> ("Kévin Le Gouguec"'s message of "Fri, 25 Dec 2020 12:20:09 +0100")
Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> writes:
>> But why do you type "/med TAB" instead of "med TAB"?
>
> The assumption, I believe, is that the target folder is under /media/,
> while the initial prompt is "~/". Starting with a slash causes the
> initial prompt to be "greyed out" (i.e. rendered ineffectual unless the
> user backspaces).
Oh, I see. I thought Richard wanted to get to a directory called
~/media/.
> As Richard explained in <E1ksevx-0003Un-Sf@fencepost.gnu.org>, some
> GNU/Linux distros mount external media under /media/$USER, so typing
> /med TAB greys out the initial ~/ and used to complete to /media/$USER
> (if $USER is the only folder under /media). Now users need to type an
> additional slash to disambiguate from "/media:".
Yup; I've also got a /media/ directory, and I see the same thing.
/media/ is a common directory on many systems -- would it make sense to
rename the Tramp method to something other than media:?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-25 19:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-24 5:53 bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience Richard Stallman
2020-12-24 5:58 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-24 8:53 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-24 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-24 17:02 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-24 17:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 4:42 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 11:06 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 10:22 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:28 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-27 5:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 5:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 11:17 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-25 11:20 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-25 19:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2020-12-25 20:31 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-25 22:11 ` bug#45402: Rename Tramp method "media" Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-25 22:35 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-25 23:38 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-26 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 8:44 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-26 18:53 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-26 11:44 ` Michael Albinus
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