Re: tramp (2.1.12); Host name completion not working in XEmacs

[Pete Forman]

At 2008-02-22 14:52 +0100, Michael Albinus wrote:
> What is the value of `tramp-completion-function-alist'? What does the
> following form returns?
>
>   (tramp-get-completion-function "plink")

((tramp-parse-connection-properties "plink")
(tramp-parse-shosts "~/.ssh/known_hosts"))

> Does it help to call
>
>   (tramp-set-completion-function
>    "plink"
>    '((tramp-parse-shosts "~/.ssh/known_hosts")))

No.  Problem and value of (tramp-get-completion-function "plink") the same.

> Is there a difference in methods "plink" and "plinkx" (you seem to use
> both methods)?

I use PuTTY for console connections to remote hosts, Cygwin rsync for 
bulk transfers, plink for tunnelling VNC and Tramp.  So in XEmacs I'm 
using ~/.ssh/known_hosts for the list of hosts but the keys are 
actually in Pageant/plink.  Separate copies of the keys are in the two systems.

plinkx and plink both exhibit the same problem with session/host completion.

The impression that I get is that XEmacs is not delegating completion 
responsibility to Tramp until the "]" is entered.  Or maybe Tramp is 
matching on a regexp that does not grok incomplete file specifications.

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