GNU bug report logs - #45402
28.0.50; new completion inconvenience

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec <at> gmail.com>, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 45402 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#45402: Rename Tramp method "media"
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 14:35:42 -0800 (PST)

It's no doubt too late now, at least in general,
but maybe it would make sense to use a prefix
for Tramp, kind of like what we do for libraries.

Besides being too late, I imagine someone will
say that that would be too verbose for users to
type, which is true.

But even a prefix of "t" might be sufficient to
usually distinguish Tramp's protocol names.  In
this case, ~//tmedia would mean Tramp's protocol
and ~//media would mean (change to) local
directory /media.

Yeah, it's ugly.  But the Tramp syntax is
apparently inherently ambiguous here (i.e., can
conflict with a dir name).

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