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

[Matthew Donaldson]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the pointer.  I have downloaded tramp 2.1.9, installed it and put 
it in my load path in front of the old tramp.  Tramp-version now confirms I am 
using 2.1.9, but I still get the same behaviour when trying to complete - I 
can't get the completion of the hostname and user name from typing / plus the 
first few chars of the username.  I have tried with partial completion mode on 
and off.  Am I missing something?

Cheers

               -Matthew

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Matthew Donaldson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi Michael,
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
> > Now I want to open a file on the remote host again.  What I could do
> > in ange-ftp is this:
> >
> > C-x C-f /use<TAB>
> >
> > and it would complete it to:
> >
> > /address@hidden:/
> >
> > And I could go on from there to get the file I wanted.
> >
> > This was very useful when dealing with long host names and/or long
> > usernames, as it saved typing the username and hostname combinations
> > all the time.
>
> Now I got it.
>
> Yes, this is indeed the behaviour of Tramp 2.0, as shipped with Emacs
> 22.1. The reason is that Tramp performs a lot of additional completion
> attempts, and it passes functionality to ange-ftp only in case it
> knows it must be handled by ange-ftp (after the ":", in your case).
>
> In Tramp 2.1, this behaviour has been improved to something similar
> you've used to apply with native ange-ftp. Tramp remembers connections
> once they have been used, and offers corresponding completions. But
> this Tramp version won't be bundled with Emacs 22.x, I suspect.
>
> So if you want get back the old ange-ftp behaviour in Emacs 22.1, you
> could keep a ~/.netrc file with valid entries. Sorry for the
> inconvenience.
>
> > Cheers
> >
> >              -Matthew
>
> Best regards, Michael.


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