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27.0.60; A couple of bugs messing with minibuffer completion of /sudo::

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From: Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 39389 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39389: 27.0.60; A couple of bugs messing with minibuffer completion of /sudo::
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2020 18:30:40 +0000

On 02/02/2020 18:14, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 02/02/2020 15:47, Michael Albinus wrote:
>>> I've tried this one. I've got exactly the same minibuffer contents. BUT
>>> a simple backspace has removed everything, and it has shown just '/' .
>>>
>> This is exactly the problem. Backspace removes the whole "sudo:/", and
>> putting it back into the prompt, then RET just creates a directory
>> called `sudo:`. There's no way to enter the full Tramp syntax using ido
>> with ido-enable-tramp-completion off.
> I see. Sorry, but I'm out of the game then. I don't know ido that I
> could help you.
>
> I'm just surprised, that you set ido-enable-tramp-completion to nil, and
> that you still expect Tramp file name support. That doesn't sound right
> to me.
I expect either that variable didn't exist and Tramp file name
completion was always fast, or when it's off, ido just reverts back to
the behavior of the regular `find-file`, which should allow me to type
out the whole Tramp syntax.

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