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don't force mystery on user trying to find out what is completing after the word "ssh" in *shell*

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: 9134 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: bug#9134: don't force mystery on user trying to find out what is completing after the word "ssh" in *shell*
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:08:12 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> It's pretty self-evident where most completions come from, but the ssh
> one is perhaps more surprising than most.

And testing it some more, it doesn't really work very well.

$ ssh TAB

gives me

$ ssh quimbies

because I have "Host quimbies" in .ssh/config.  But:

$ ssh qTAB

gives me "No match".

It also looks in ~/.ssh/known_hosts, but the default is to hash the host
names, so by default, there's nothing there to complete over.

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