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bug#32591: 26.1; Ido-find-file does not intuitiely support tramp
From: |
Michael Albinus |
Subject: |
bug#32591: 26.1; Ido-find-file does not intuitiely support tramp |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:27:02 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> So the greyed-out parts here seem to say that we're going to get
> ~/.emacs on the remote host... and hitting RET does indeed give me
> that.
>
> To get the ~/.emacs on the local machine, I have to delete everything in
> the minibuffer and type ~/.emacs.
No. Three slashes grey out everything.
> I've been tripped up by this before, because I'm so used to just typing
> `C-x C-f ~/.emacs RET' without even looking (to get to my local .emacs
> file). But I think the current behaviour is the intended one, really --
> it's consistent, powerful and makes sense.
My memory muscle starts *always* to type three slashes, before I type a
local file name. When your muscle is trained, it is easy to type
`C-x C-f ///~/.emacs RET', even w/o thinking about. Whether you use ido,
or not.
Best regards, Michael.