From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Wiegley" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs-26 d2d5e54: Mention remote file name completion in Emacs manual Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:56:54 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20180203203124.9577.74338@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20180203203125.63A2520690@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <87lgg9xhwl.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517734569 29722 195.159.176.226 (4 Feb 2018 08:56:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 08:56:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 09:56:04 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 1eiG5c-0006w9-30 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:55:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50475 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiG7d-0004bO-CR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:58:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiG6i-0004aA-QL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:57:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiG6i-00037b-2u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eiG6d-00033v-7i; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:56:59 -0500 Original-Received: from auth2-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.228]:46761) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA256:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eiG6c-00021z-Mr; Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.internal [10.202.2.44]) by mailauth.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4ED3205D5; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 03:56:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from frontend2 ([10.202.2.161]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 04 Feb 2018 03:56:57 -0500 X-ME-Sender: Original-Received: from localhost (76-234-69-149.lightspeed.frokca.sbcglobal.net [76.234.69.149]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 5A2CE24522; Sun, 4 Feb 2018 03:56:57 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87lgg9xhwl.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Sun, 04 Feb 2018 09:45:14 +0100") Mail-Followup-To: Michael Albinus , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:222494 Archived-At: >>>>> "MA" == Michael Albinus writes: MA> There is one exception: If you type two slashes at the top of the local MA> part of a remote file name, it behaves like for local file names. That MA> means, "/ssh:host:// TAB" completes to "/". MA> I don't remember why we have done this, but for consistency reasons, MA> "/ssh:host:// TAB" should complete to "/ssh:host:/", and "/ssh:host:/// MA> TAB" should complete to "/". MA> Opinions? Maybe that you'd be changing 30 years of muscle memory on people? I use // several times a day to "Get back to root", when I don't want to complete within a sub-path. It also works in places (like ivy) where C-a C-k doesn't always. -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2