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29.0.50; Tramp completion support for top-level sshconfig include

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From: Bartosz Kaczyński <bk <at> asterio.cloud>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 54885 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54885: 29.0.50; Tramp completion support for top-level sshconfig include
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 17:22:09 +0200

Hi Michael,

thank you. These few lines made my work lot easier and it's huge 
improvement.

Best regards, Bartosz.

On 4/13/22 16:44, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de> writes:
>
> Hi Bartosz,
>
>> Tramp doesn't handle sshconfig includes. However, you can emulate it
>> yourself with the following snippet in your .emacs (untested):
> Hmm, there was an error in the snipptet. I've reworked it, and added to
> the Tramp manual (pushed to master):
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> 4.18.1 Using ssh config include for host name completion
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> OpenSSH configuration files can use an ‘Include’ option for further
> configuration files.  Default TRAMP host name completion ignores this
> option.  However, you can configure this yourself.
>
>     Given, your ‘~/.ssh/config’ file contains the following option:
>
>       Include ~/.ssh/conf.d/*
>
>     The following code snippet in your ‘.emacs’ uses all files in that
> directory for host name completion:
>
>       (tramp-set-completion-function
>        "ssh" (append (tramp-get-completion-function "ssh")
>                      (mapcar (lambda (file) `(tramp-parse-sconfig ,file))
>                              (directory-files
>                               "~/.ssh/conf.d/"
>                               'full directory-files-no-dot-files-regexp))))
>
>     This code snippet does it for the ‘ssh’ method.  If you replace
> "ssh" by "scp", it does it also for that method (or any other method
> you like).
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best regards, Michael.

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