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Message #30 received at 4004 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 4004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Colin Williams <lackita <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4004: filename completion
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:37:15 -0400

>>> Have you enabled partial-completion-mode, which is needed for Tramp
>>> sometimes?
>> 
>> Note that partial-completion-mode is on the way out, so if you need
>> partial-completion-mode to make it work, it's important to know it.

> I must check the code, but IIRC partial-completion-mode is just an
> indication for Tramp whether some file name completion functionality
> shall be enabled, before Tramp is fully loaded. There were people who
> disliked Tramp's file name completion.

Then this needs to be fixed.  Looking at the code, I can't quite
understand what it does: it seems that Tramp's method/user/host
completion is only activated for people you use either
partial-completion-mode, ido, icycle, or XEmacs.  I'm not sure what's
the logic behind it, but I'd rather just activate it based on a specific
configuration variable (or just always activate it, as you do in
XEmacs).  In Emacs-23, the functionality that was previous offered by
partial-completion-mode is enabled by default (tho implemented
differently and activated differently as well).


        Stefan

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