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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: "4004\@debbugs.gnu.org" <4004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>,
        Colin Williams <lackita <at> gmail.com>, emacs-devel <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#4004: filename completion
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:53:38 -0400

> There was a discussion about some years ago, when I did add Tramp's
> autoloads. People were annoyed, that even after typing something like
> "/a" in the minibuffer, Tramp was already loaded, which raised some
> delays. So it was suggested to make Tramp's autoloading optional. It was
> even requested that this "optionality" should not be something, which
> the user has to disnable herself; users should not be bashed by a new
> feature they are not interested in.

That's beginning to make more sense.  But I just tried the following:

   emacs -Q
   C-x C-f /a TAB :

and then

   emacs -Q
   M-: (setq partial-completion-mode t)
   C-x C-f /a TAB :

and I don't see any difference (Tramp gets loaded when I hit : and no
earlier).  Could you show me another example where I can see
the difference, so I can better understand the tradeoffs?


        Stefan

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