Re: Bind non-essential in pcomplete to prevent tramp error

[Michael Albinus]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> !       (let* ((non-essential t)
>> !              pcomplete-stub
>>           pcomplete-seen pcomplete-norm-func
>>           pcomplete-args pcomplete-last pcomplete-index
>>           (pcomplete-autolist pcomplete-autolist)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Is it OK to install the patch in the emacs-25 branch?
>
> Looks wrong.  Why would you consider this to be non-essential?

Have you read the scenario presented by Jürgen? How would you solve this
differently?

`non-essential' was invented for cases like this: "It can be used to
prevent Tramp from ... displaying possible completions before the user
even asked for it."

>         Stefan

Best regards, Michael.