Subject: bug#50387: Possible bug in Tramp or in completions

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2021 22:49:47 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Stefan,

> Tramp can only affect the file name completion table, so all it gets to
> see is a request for the set of prefix-completions of "/".
> Maybe Tramp could include "/adb:" and friends in there, but Michael
> probably has good reasons for not doing so.

For a completion of "/" Tramp tries to be silent, in order not to
surprise the many users which don't use Tramp with candidates like
"/adb:". They wouldn't know what's that.

The compromise is to show them only the default method "/scp:" (and
"/scpx:" due to completion), in order to give them an idea that there's
more in Emacs but the local file system.

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.