bug#5840: 24.0.50; wrong tramp-file-name-regexp

[Stefan Monnier]

>> *BUT* I also realized that your suggested patch:
>> is not OK: when I hit ? (or TAB) in the minibuffer, I really do want
>> Tramp to give me the possible completions, even if that requires my
>> entering a password.

> But this still works. As soon as Tramp detects, that the file name is a
> "syntactical complete" one, it lets you complete the remote file name
> path. That means "/string:?" would be completed only in case "string" is
> not a method name. "/string::?" or "/string:/?" or "/string:.?" will
> always be completed with path names, because due to the syntax it is
> clear that "string" must be a host name.

Hmmm... so Tramp does not interpret `non-essential' in the same way as
I do (and the way I documented in the docstring).  E.g. when using
icomplete (which should set non-essential for the same reason as ido,
IIUC), I wouldn't want Tramp to try to connect to the host just because
I've started typing "/ssh:host:something".


        Stefan