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Message #10 received at 4004 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Colin Williams <lackita <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 4004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4004: filename completion
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:13:42 +0200

Colin Williams <lackita <at> gmail.com> writes:

> In 23.1.50.1, there's a bad interaction between tab completion and
> tramp filenames.  If you try to do tab completion on
> "/ssh:remote-host:~/~/te", where the file "test" exists on the remote
> host but not locally, the completion says there's no match.

For me, it works.

What happens if you try to complete "/ssh:remote-host:~/te"?

Has the file "test" been created on the remote host outside Emacs, while
Tramp was running already?

Have you enabled partial-completion-mode, which is needed for Tramp
sometimes?

> Colin

Best regards, Michael.

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