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Re: filename completion
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
Re: filename completion |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:34:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> There was a discussion about some years ago, when I did add Tramp's
>> autoloads. People were annoyed, that even after typing something like
>> "/a" in the minibuffer, Tramp was already loaded, which raised some
>> delays. So it was suggested to make Tramp's autoloading optional. It was
>> even requested that this "optionality" should not be something, which
>> the user has to disnable herself; users should not be bashed by a new
>> feature they are not interested in.
>
> That's beginning to make more sense. But I just tried the following:
>
> emacs -Q
> C-x C-f /a TAB :
>
> and then
>
> emacs -Q
> M-: (setq partial-completion-mode t)
> C-x C-f /a TAB :
>
> and I don't see any difference (Tramp gets loaded when I hit : and no
> earlier). Could you show me another example where I can see
> the difference, so I can better understand the tradeoffs?
You are right, partial-completion-mode is out of the game. No idea why.
You can see the effect with
emacs -Q
M-x ido-mode
C-x C-f /s
Tramp is loaded after typing s, and you see all possible methods for
expanding.
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Michael Albinus, 2009/08/07
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/10
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/10
- Re: filename completion,
Michael Albinus <=
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Michael Albinus, 2009/08/15
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/17
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Michael Albinus, 2009/08/18
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/18
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, Michael Albinus, 2009/08/18
- Re: bug#4004: filename completion, David Kastrup, 2009/08/18