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25.0.92; Loading Tramp breaks pcomplete in eshell-mode

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 23006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23006: 25.0.92; Loading Tramp breaks pcomplete in eshell-mode
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 18:13:33 +0200

On 03/21/2016 06:03 PM, Michael Albinus wrote:

> The latter does not make sense. Starting with "ssh -l user host" and
> then aborting due to a missing password is nonsense. More serious, it
> could be regarded as attack by the server we try to connect. After
> several such attempts (every time you are in file name completion and
> must abort due to the missing credentials), the server shall blacklist us.

OK.

> The first case makes more sense. Once non-essential is non-nil, Tramp
> does not open a new connection until it is obvious that the user wants
> this. The indication is a slash in the local file name part.

That seems undesirable, and against non-essential's purpose.

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