GNU bug report logs - #13900
24.3.50; tramp mode for for /su: and /sudo: on localhost

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jason <jason <at> debian.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>

Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 01:17:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #15 received at 13900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 13900 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13900: 24.3.50;
	tramp mode for for /su: and /sudo: on localhost
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:10:18 -0500

>> then C-x C-f /sudo:/home/jason/somefile
> This is a wrong syntax. You try to connect the host "sudo" with scp.

BTW, could you try and make TAB on such a file name "expand" to
"/ssh:sudo:..." so as to clarify what's going on?
IOW, demote the "/<host>:" syntax such that it is expanded to the
corresponding "/<method>:<host>:" form as early as possible (and as
visibly as possible)?

Also, if <host> is the name of an existing method, the behavior should
be to treat it as a method name, rather than a host name (i.e. force
the user to type "/ssh:sudo:" if she wants to connect to the "sudo"
host).


        Stefan
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