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

[Matthew Donaldson]

Hi Michael,

I guess I'm not explaining this very well.  I'll try and give a scenario:

First I load a file on the FTP server with file-name completion once I have 
put in the host name and user name, as with your scenario:

C-x C-f /address@hidden:/ <TAB> password <TAB>  <TAB>

Now I find a file on the local file system

C-x C-f ~/test.txt

Now I want to open a file on the remote host again.  What I could do in 
ange-ftp is this:

C-x C-f /use<TAB>

and it would complete it to:

/address@hidden:/

And I could go on from there to get the file I wanted.

This was very useful when dealing with long host names and/or long usernames, 
as it saved typing the username and hostname combinations all the time.

Hope I've explained the problem a bit more clearly.

Cheers

             -Matthew

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> > This wouldn't work until you had first loaded a file from
> > address@hidden, so I think ange-ftp was being clever, and completing
> > the path based on what ange-ftp buffers you had open at the moment.
> > This worked nicely for me. Hostname completion doesn't help me much
> > because then I have to put in the full path again and so on.  I can't
> > seem to get tramp to blindly complete the ange-ftp path name the way
> > ange-ftp used to do, based on the loaded buffers.
>
> I cannot follow your scenario. I have done the following:
>
> # emacs -Q
> M-: (setq tramp-default-method "ftp") <RET>
> C-x C-f /address@hidden:/ <TAB> password <TAB> <TAB>
>
> and then I've got the file name completion window as expected. What's
> wrong with this?
>
> Best regards, Michael.


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