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bug#3250: 23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#3250: 23.0.93; tab completion flakey with tramp when insert-default-directory is nil |
Date: |
Sat, 09 May 2009 18:37:21 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.93 (gnu/linux) |
> (setq insert-default-directory nil)
> tab completion when using tramp to access a remote file becomes flakey.
> It seems that the notion of the current working directory becomes lost,
> so tab completion ends up with doubled up directories, eg:
> /home/chris/afolder/afolder
> ...where afolder doesn't exist, resulting in errors such as the following:
> File error: tramp-handle-file-name-all-completions: Couldn't `cd
> /home/chris/afolder/afolder/'
> This doesn't happen right away, but I usually end up bumping into it when
> navigating
> around a folder structure by inserting .. a number of times in the
> minibuffer window.
I don't know if Michael can fix it based on the above report, but
I expect that a reproducible test case starting from "emacs -Q"
would help.
Stefan