Re: Tramp completion doesn't work like ange-ftp

[Matthew Donaldson]

Hi Michael,

I have set the default tramp method to ftp, but my understanding is that it 
defers its operations to ange-ftp, but still uses its interface on top of it. 
 Ange-ftp was much simpler than tramp, and didn't offer host name completion 
etc.  I don't really need host name completion.  I'm happy to type the host 
name in the first time.  But when doing a completion on an ange-ftp path name 
(e.g. /address@hidden:/...), emacs would complete that to the full ange-ftp path.

This wouldn't work until you had first loaded a file from address@hidden, so 
I think ange-ftp was being clever, and completing the path based on what 
ange-ftp buffers you had open at the moment.  This worked nicely for me. 
Hostname completion doesn't help me much because then I have to put in the 
full path again and so on.  I can't seem to get tramp to blindly complete the 
ange-ftp path name the way ange-ftp used to do, based on the loaded buffers.

Cheers

                -Matthew

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Matthew Donaldson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Michael,
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> > So say I opened a file on a server using the path
> > /address@hidden:/public_html/myfile.txt
> >
> > Now I'm editing some local file and I want to open myfile2.txt in the
> > remote folder at a later stage.  Under ange-ftp, at the find-file:
> > prompt I could type in (e.g.) "/user<TAB>" and the  completion would
> > search through the file paths of all the buffers (taken at face value)
> > and find /address@hidden:/public_html/ as a folder, and complete it
> > for me.  This saved a lot of hostname and pathname typing.  I can't
> > seem to do this with tramp.  Typing "/user<TAB>" gives me no
> > completions.  Maybe it's being cleverer than I want and trying to
> > interpret the path?
>
> Some few checks:
>
> - Is there an entry "machine myhost.com login user" in your ~/.netrc?
>   I guess yes, because it worked for you before.
>
> - What is your default Tramp method? It shall be "ftp", if you want to
>   use ange-ftp. Check "C-h v tramp-default-method".
>   Btw, setting tramp-default-method is mentioned in the NEWS of Emacs
>   22.1, which you can read via "C-h n".
>
> > Cheers
> >
> >                 -Matthew
>
> Best regards, Michael.


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