From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tramp inconsistent completion over default directory Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 18:14:56 +0200 Message-ID: <87o9h7hdkv.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> References: <87sh6jn1f9.fsf@wavexx.thregr.org> <874lizd65m.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527005701 26171 195.159.176.226 (22 May 2018 16:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 16:15:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 22 18:14:57 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 1fL9w4-0006fC-E1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 18:14:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56692 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fL9yB-0007x4-Fs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 12:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44113) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fL9wM-0006jl-FJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 12:15:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fL9wI-0000GF-EG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 12:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54713 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fL9wI-0000Fp-7J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 12:15:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fL9u8-0004KW-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 May 2018 18:12:52 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:KuM6pGNkUrPerur8DYO/4UOR4sM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:225560 Archived-At: On Tue, May 22 2018, Michael Albinus wrote: > It is intended that Tramp starts with remote file name completion only > if it sees a slash. You could always add a slash if needed, like > > /-:remote:./proj > > Completing an empty remote file name like > > /-:remote: > > was not planned, this must be a side effect I'm not aware of ... Not only the completion works, but you can open /-:remote: and it will load the home directory into dired. Personally I'd love to being able to work without the extra "./" or "~/" (I find it redundant), but if it's ambiguous for the tramp syntax, then I'd prevent that to happen for consistency.