Re: tramp (2.2.3-pre); Filename completion in shell and eshell fail on remote hosts

[Michael Albinus]

Selah Ben-Haim <address@hidden> writes:

> I pulled the new version from CVS, but the problem remains. I do have
> some more info.

It's a pity. Anyway, you have forced me to find the other bug :-)

> If I'm in my home directory, /home/selah, on a remote server and I hit
> TAB to complete "bin", completion works, but I get the following
> error:
>
> Error: (file-error "Opening directory" "no such file or directory"
> "/ssh:pion.pozitronic.com:/home/selah/bin/")
>
> There's a cleaned up backtrace below, though it's a bit messy.

I'll have a look on it.

> Also, if I attempt to TAB complete the filesystem root by typing "cd
> /" and TAB, it attempts to complete on my local system root. However,
> if I enter "cd /ssh:pion.pozitronic.com:/" and hit TAB, completion
> works as expected.
>
> I suspect this has to do with the recently introduced usage of
> pcomplete's completion-at-point in shell mode. An older version of
> Emacs is using comint-dynamic-complete, and is working properly.
>
> I also noticed this in pcomplete:
>
> (defun pcomplete-shell-setup ()
>   "Setup `shell-mode' to use pcomplete."
>   ;; FIXME: insufficient
>   (pcomplete-comint-setup 'comint-dynamic-complete-functions))

This is not Tramp related. Would be great if you could file a bug report
towards Emacs via "M-x report-emacs-bug".

What's the situation with eshell?

> Hope that helps,
>
> Selah

Best regards, Michael.