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28.0.50; new completion inconvenience

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Message #38 received at 45402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 45402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#45402: 28.0.50; new completion inconvenience
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 20:31:32 +0100

Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> But why do you type "/med TAB" instead of "med TAB"?
>
> The assumption, I believe, is that the target folder is under /media/,
> while the initial prompt is "~/".  Starting with a slash causes the
> initial prompt to be "greyed out" (i.e. rendered ineffectual unless the
> user backspaces).

Oh, I see.  I thought Richard wanted to get to a directory called
~/media/.

> As Richard explained in <E1ksevx-0003Un-Sf <at> fencepost.gnu.org>, some
> GNU/Linux distros mount external media under /media/$USER, so typing
> /med TAB greys out the initial ~/ and used to complete to /media/$USER
> (if $USER is the only folder under /media).  Now users need to type an
> additional slash to disambiguate from "/media:".

Yup; I've also got a /media/ directory, and I see the same thing.
/media/ is a common directory on many systems -- would it make sense to
rename the Tramp method to something other than media:?

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