From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 32591@debbugs.gnu.org, Joshua Branson <jbranso@fastmail.com>
Subject: bug#32591: 26.1; Ido-find-file does not intuitiely support tramp
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:27:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eeayg2mh.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87im0alrqx.fsf@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:25:26 +0200")
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> So the greyed-out parts here seem to say that we're going to get
> ~/.emacs on the remote host... and hitting RET does indeed give me
> that.
>
> To get the ~/.emacs on the local machine, I have to delete everything in
> the minibuffer and type ~/.emacs.
No. Three slashes grey out everything.
> I've been tripped up by this before, because I'm so used to just typing
> `C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET' without even looking (to get to my local .emacs
> file). But I think the current behaviour is the intended one, really --
> it's consistent, powerful and makes sense.
My memory muscle starts *always* to type three slashes, before I type a
local file name. When your muscle is trained, it is easy to type
`C-x C-f ///~/.emacs RET', even w/o thinking about. Whether you use ido,
or not.
Best regards, Michael.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-12 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-30 14:30 bug#32591: 26.1; Ido-find-file does not intuitiely support tramp Joshua Branson
2018-08-30 14:26 ` Colin Baxter
2018-08-31 14:50 ` Joshua Branson
2018-08-30 15:19 ` Michael Albinus
2021-08-12 13:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-12 14:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2021-08-12 14:27 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
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