Re: hang forever with an invalid tramp filename

[Michael Albinus]

Thierry Volpiatto <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Michael,

Hi Thierry,

> I encountered some issues with tramp while writing `anything' completion
> for hostnames:
>
> - tramp hang if i do (find-file "/ssh:toto")
>   (notice the last ":" is missing)
>   where toto is a valid hostname.
>   I think this should return an error and exiting instead of trying to
>   connect.
>   This is reproductible in emacs -Q with C-x C-f => /ssh:toto RET

"/ssh:toto" is a valid remote file name, with the host part being "ssh",
and the default method (likely "scp"). "toto" is the local file name on
the remote host.


> - `tramp-parse-connection-properties' should return a list of (user
>   host) as described in docstring, however it return sometimes a list of
>   (user method), so i have to parse this to remove such entries.
>   (not a big deal though, but well..)

Could you, please, give an example?

Best regards, Michael.