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Re: emacs-26 d2d5e54: Mention remote file name completion in Emacs manua
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John Wiegley |
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Re: emacs-26 d2d5e54: Mention remote file name completion in Emacs manual |
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Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:56:54 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.91 (darwin) |
>>>>> "MA" == Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
MA> There is one exception: If you type two slashes at the top of the local
MA> part of a remote file name, it behaves like for local file names. That
MA> means, "/ssh:host:// TAB" completes to "/".
MA> I don't remember why we have done this, but for consistency reasons,
MA> "/ssh:host:// TAB" should complete to "/ssh:host:/", and "/ssh:host:///
MA> TAB" should complete to "/".
MA> Opinions?
Maybe that you'd be changing 30 years of muscle memory on people? I use //
several times a day to "Get back to root", when I don't want to complete
within a sub-path. It also works in places (like ivy) where C-a C-k doesn't
always.
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