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bug#10085: 24.0.91; completion-pcm--find-all-completions returns wrong r
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#10085: 24.0.91; completion-pcm--find-all-completions returns wrong remote file names |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:28:41 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Shall I submit such a patch towards rfn-eshadow.el, for the sake of the
>> upcoming release?
>
> You can even install it now.
Done.
> As I have shown with the trace, Tramp treats "/sud:" and "/sudo:"
> differently, making the ":" a boundary separator in the first case but
> not in the second. It's not strictly incorrect, but it is inconsistent
> and makes it harder for the minibuffer.el code to behave well.
Tramp does not know of programmed completion and pcm style completion;
all what it knows is file-name-all-completions. What else could Tramp
do?
>> I guess we need to find out, what are separators in Tramp wrt
>> completion tables, and how to handle them.
>
> The user finds out, the implementer decides.
Oh. You haven't seen Tramp's heuristic to determine, whether completion
of "/sudo" means the method or the user or the host (in fact, it is all).
> Stefan
Best regards, Michael.
bug#10085: 24.0.91; completion-pcm--find-all-completions returns wrong remote file names, Stefan Monnier, 2011/11/22