Re: Change Tramp syntax

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

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

>> > I have a directory ~/data.  Is it expected that typing "C-x C-f ~/dat TAB"
>> > should load Tramp?  If that's expected, why is Tramp interested in
>> > completions of such file names?
>> 
>> Tramp shouldn't be interested. "~" is in the way. I wrote "/foo".
>
> Sorry, I don't think I understand what you meant.  Does this mean you
> think loading Tramp in the above case is unexpected, and will look
> into this?  Or does this mean the presence of "~" somehow explains why
> Tramp is loaded upon completion?  In the latter case, could you please
> elaborate?

I meant that Tramp shall not be loaded in that case. I tried to
reproduce, starting emacs -Q, being in ~/, and typing "C-x C-f d a <TAB>".

And indeed, Tramp is loaded. Backtrace:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
  tramp-completion-file-name-handler(file-name-completion "da" "/home/albinmic/" file-exists-p)
  file-name-completion("da" "~/" file-exists-p)
  completion-file-name-table("~/da" file-exists-p nil)
  try-completion("~/da" completion-file-name-table file-exists-p)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Neither "da" nor "/home/albinmic/" shall trigger this. I'll check.

> Thanks.

Best regards, Michael.