From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r108646: * minibuffer.el (read-file-name-default): Bind `non-essential' to `t'.
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:35:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbokgnyv4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87obog8t4c.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:47:15 +0200")
>>> Here's a recipe to reproduce the problem (revert the patch in
>>> minibuffer.el first):
>>> emacs -Q -l icomplete -f icomplete-mode
>>> C-x C-f /ssh:localhost:/ <TAB>
>> I don't see any problem here. Tramp requests a password, as expected
>> and as it should (since the user hit TAB, she clearly wants completion).
> As Drew said, it might disturb users. It wouldn't be necessary, if the
> default check wouldn't be `file-exsists-p', which provokes the password
> request. Something like
> (or (file-remote-p fn) (file-exists-p fn))
> should be better (again, I don't know where to change).
Why? The user wants to get the list of completions (that's why she hit
TAB), so she really wants to connect. Not connecting (as we currently
do) is a bug.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-18 20:35 UTC|newest]
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2012-06-18 2:15 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r108646: * minibuffer.el (read-file-name-default): Bind `non-essential' to `t' Stefan Monnier
2012-06-18 9:00 ` Michael Albinus
2012-06-18 14:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-18 14:58 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r108646: * minibuffer.el(read-file-name-default): " Drew Adams
2012-06-18 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-18 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-18 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-19 12:36 ` Michael Albinus
2012-06-19 13:16 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-19 13:35 ` Michael Albinus
2012-06-19 16:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-19 19:03 ` Michael Albinus
2012-06-20 6:57 ` Michael Albinus
2012-06-20 13:29 ` Drew Adams
2012-06-18 16:47 ` [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r108646: * minibuffer.el (read-file-name-default): " Michael Albinus
2012-06-18 20:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-06-18 20:41 ` Michael Albinus
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