Re: Change Tramp syntax

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2017 21:31:00 +0100
> 
> > Are the recent changes the reason that typing "C-x C-f ~/da" is now
> > followed by a perceptible delay, due to Tramp being auto-loaded?  This
> > used not to be the case.
> 
> "~/da" shall not invoke Tramp. But it does, indeed. If I call "emacs -Q"
> and eval "M-x debug-on-entry RET load", then Tramp is already loaded
> after typing "~/d". The reason is
> 
>   substitute-in-file-name("/d")
>   rfn-eshadow-update-overlay()
>   read-from-minibuffer("Find file: " "~/" (keymap (keymap (32)) keymap (10 . m

Can we get rid of this somehow?  It used to be possible to avoid
loading Tramp when specifying local file names.

> The delay is not serious on my 7-years old T500 (less than half a
> second). I don't know whether this counts as "perceptible".

Well, if it wasn't perceptible, I wouldn't have paid attention...