Re: File path completions: strange speed discrepancy

[JD Smith]

On Sep 22, 2021, at 3:43 AM, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:

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I can confirm that the latest TRAMP devel package fixes the file completion slowdown problem on MacOS, without any special configuration.

I guess the one mystery remaining is why (getenv “TMPDIR”) sometimes returns nil, and sometimes returns the same thing getconf “DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR” does.  But your fix is sound and has sped up remote completion to the same performance as in a native shell over SSH.   Thanks!  

JDS