From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 d2d5e54: Mention remote file name completion in Emacs manual Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 19:18:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83bmh4ad1y.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180203203124.9577.74338@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180203203125.63A2520690@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87lgg9xhwl.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517764648 15088 195.159.176.226 (4 Feb 2018 17:17:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 17:17:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 18:17:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNuQ-0001lQ-QP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 18:16:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45076 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNwR-000636-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:18:59 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNwF-00062V-Vg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:18:48 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNwC-0001YB-Qr for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59738) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNwC-0001Y7-NI; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2979 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eiNwC-0004uj-4G; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 12:18:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <87lgg9xhwl.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:45:14 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222510 Archived-At: > From: Michael Albinus > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:45:14 +0100 > > > + When completing remote file names (@pxref{Remote Files}), a double > > +slash behaves slightly differently: it causes Emacs to ignore only the > > +file-name part, leaving the rest (method, host and username, etc.) > > +intact. Typing three slashes in a row ignores everything in remote > > +file names. @xref{File name completion,,, tramp, The Tramp Manual}. > > There is one exception: If you type two slashes at the top of the local > part of a remote file name, it behaves like for local file names. That > means, "/ssh:host:// TAB" completes to "/". The node to which I pointed in the Tramp manual is quite large, and mentions many other useful aspects of the issue. I hoped that the cross-reference will be enough to send people there, instead of repeating everything in the Emacs manual. Are you saying that the nit about two slashes at the beginning of the file name is so important that it must be in the Emacs manual?