Re: bug#4004: filename completion

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> There was a discussion about some years ago, when I did add Tramp's
>> autoloads. People were annoyed, that even after typing something like
>> "/a" in the minibuffer, Tramp was already loaded, which raised some
>> delays. So it was suggested to make Tramp's autoloading optional. It was
>> even requested that this "optionality" should not be something, which
>> the user has to disnable herself; users should not be bashed by a new
>> feature they are not interested in.
>
> That's beginning to make more sense.

Would it be OK to add the check 

  (and (boundp 'completion-styles)
       (member 'partial-completion (symbol-value 'completion-styles)))

as indication to enable method, user, hostname completion?

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.