bug#5840: 24.0.50; wrong tramp-file-name-regexp

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA> writes:

> I just tried:
>
> % emacs -Q
> M-x ido-mode RET
> C-x C-f /ssh:turlutu:
>
> and when I hit the last : Tramp gave me an error which disrupted my
> window arrangement and made it painful to fix the spelling of the host
> name.  And I did not hit any TAB, or question mark.
> Currently icomplete-mode doesn't set non-essential, so it gets an error
> even earlier, but even if it were to set non-essential, it'll get the
> exact same problem.
>
> Of course, maybe your opinion is that it's not a problem.

Of course, this is an error. I've just committed a patch which makes
Tramp less noisy in this case; tested with your ido example above.

> Anyway, here's a more serious problem:
>
> M-x icomplete-mode RET C-x C-f /pas
>
> and it immediately tries to connect to my machine `pastel'.  The lack of
> `non-essential' in icomplete.el does not excuse this.  Can you explain
> why Tramp tries to connect to a machine whose name I haven't even fully
> typed yet?

Sorry, I cannot reproduce the problem with "emacs -Q". At this point,
Tramp shall not be loaded even. Could you, please, show the backtrace?

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.