GNU bug report logs - #65356
30.0.50; [wishlist] Support Tramp method, user name and host name completion in eshell

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:03:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 74177

Found in versions 29.4, 30.0.50

Fixed in version 30.1

Done: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 65356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Jim Porter <jporterbugs <at> gmail.com>, 65356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65356: 30.0.50; [wishlist] Support Tramp method, user name
 and host name completion in eshell
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 18:33:18 -0400

> Yes. However, there is already another problem in shell-mode. My patch
> completes only incomplete Tramp file names, like "/ss". Complete Tramp
> file names are handled by pcomplete-dirs already. So we see in a *shell*
> buffer, w/o my patch:

Good point.

Still, we have the problem that `pcomplete/<CMD>` should be used only
for external commands (because they are independent from the language
used to write the command, a.k.a the shell), but for things like `cd` we
should be more precise to distinguish the completion rules for Eshell's
`cd` from those of bash's `cd`.


        Stefan
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