Re: Tramp completion doesn't work like ange-ftp

[Matthew Donaldson]

Hi Michael,

Had system problems, so was only able to try this out today.  This turns on 
the tramp-style <protocol>: abbreviations, but still doesn't let me do 
completions the way ange-ftp did.  I want to be able to complete based on the 
path I used to access the file.

So say I opened a file on a server using the path
/address@hidden:/public_html/myfile.txt

Now I'm editing some local file and I want to open myfile2.txt in the remote 
folder at a later stage.  Under ange-ftp, at the find-file: prompt I could 
type in (e.g.) "/user<TAB>" and the  completion would search through the file 
paths of all the buffers (taken at face value) and find 
/address@hidden:/public_html/ as a folder, and complete it for me.  This 
saved a lot of hostname and pathname typing.  I can't seem to do this with 
tramp.  Typing "/user<TAB>" gives me no completions.  Maybe it's being 
cleverer than I want and trying to interpret the path?

Cheers

                -Matthew


Michael Albinus wrote:
> Matthew Donaldson <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> > If I opened a file /address@hidden:/fred.txt, then I could /f<TAB> and
> > get /address@hidden:/ coming up as a completion.  Tramp doesn't seem to
> > do this, and even after unloading it, the old ange-behaviour seems to
> > work only occasionally.
> >
> > How can I get this type of completion happening?
>
> You must enable partial completion mode before loading Tramp. See the
> Tramp manual (info "(tramp)Filename completion")
>
> > Cheers
> >
> >              -Matthew
>
> Best regards, Michael


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