From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 d2d5e54: Mention remote file name completion in Emacs manual Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:45:14 +0100 Message-ID: <87lgg9xhwl.fsf@gmx.de> References: <20180203203124.9577.74338@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180203203125.63A2520690@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517733869 4184 195.159.176.226 (4 Feb 2018 08:44:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:44:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Eli Zaretskii To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 09:44:24 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 1eiFu8-0007yi-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:44:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49428 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiFw9-0007cj-9Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiFvP-0007bJ-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:45:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiFvO-0001Uc-Fj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:35095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiFvJ-0001Iy-Iw; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:45:18 -0500 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([212.86.38.251]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx101 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MXUmw-1eBnVV2Nk6-00WXq4; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:45:15 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20180203203125.63A2520690@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 3 Feb 2018 15:31:24 -0500 (EST)") X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:iDQ1lagDyUh8Tjfkd9PXLo22Q3m5iehGRkILgIyvEfPWzir4RFP HdRVyv4bm22LGicbzhjSPMdMMBs0h0NHl1Opn5S3nZGgREKTWIH6O+AtonsRqQs/XAGjyol yyH6IZaDg5Vfg7vBBLiVqN2Qm0uBgXqSQzTOIV4qOjnxMIlKegCxMpjzquKd3LzQAUu8SQW SpicwjAQzZu2ddy4RKFoA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:cyoftm+8+ag=:ANp6K65irZWgUes9o2+JzA 1rvqh2FV2zhlY5BSRdUUwYiEaM9Z1B1WyMrnYY0frTFVLFHHBAA2i5LihcdjyJwKCfDB88d87 y5UKYBkpMx/4Ml8OwMozib6vNN8K3+2SrDjc4onHkrAMNdaoFxeMwCSXSPqO3ERYCGm9RjpWQ s/F3pKrlPttKDdIsQXhovZV7hQaYBfgwYnIRlH/0FUJf4WljtBvNu43IaNlK9afLKvemclqq+ DCaiwkwEWAYTO3sap/SnUpaMBfZLxz3wxc+M+ricU6qoQ0oHS3rOmLAMf0+APcIn2PrgUiHMF 8oULjqMo/fGBd91NjdTFSkmsTPg65yY3AQLgC/aCjnGTcRCnmEpn6ly+3ISNmHOWoQiiCEJRv fsGjnK+j3iJSbf2F/lYmQqPus2tJICNy6giDQeoFuamaTApt5HV3zTdkk+FyTuGQ8bxsQZYAI a+AcPqSfXPt6PpgTrY4cZCfiT2HUirEkgetK0kpumSCV4ChkpB7qtG1XvZ2gjLLIE5lb/CKjY 5AcaWEKmyGCEhRGwgKYHjqk9TziImF+2egU6rB1vTb2VtiEDXyRmI9Fy026p/yPxj37wtCiH3 Ukj7GU9f3YJiWpKRTZ0rvAAj+UwUO4hwBlIXLSahOoluWpfxco76hnuHvxJRGnYJ4Tcn0bbTX Ix5d6P/jiTu8BaTrHMDBKcKCbPhYrhXb1WdGqVFyvL16hcCN94aNIASB/LUYrg79Vq2x5Oaq9 KdSek2HF5gOmaKNlUqKpgCtXf4Ci45OT9AbMP8+ASyfgNKxlzA1WIMmAOYQljLMzlbZ1WtF4 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 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:222493 Archived-At: eliz@gnu.org (Eli Zaretskii) writes: Hi Eli, > + 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 "/". I don't remember why we have done this, but for consistency reasons, "/ssh:host:// TAB" should complete to "/ssh:host:/", and "/ssh:host:/// TAB" should complete to "/". Opinions? Best regards, Michael.