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25.0.92; Loading Tramp breaks pcomplete in eshell-mode

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Message #218 received at 23006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 23006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: bug#23006: 25.0.92; Loading Tramp breaks pcomplete in eshell-mode
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 14:50:16 +0100

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Tramp has no information, that file-name-completion is still in
>> progress, and does its job. It tries to connect to the remote host
>> "/adb:" in order to check.
>
> For me (file-directory-p "/adb:") doesn't try to connect to "adb" but
> instead signals "Host name must not match method name 'adb'".  I think
> it's correct not to try to connect to "adb", but I think it should just
> return nil because "/adb:" is not a directory.

As said, it is not about file-directory-p. Any file name operation could
be called while file name completion is in progress.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.

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