Re: tramp (2.0.51); tramp and file-name-all-completions

2005-10-16 Thread Kim F. Storm
Michael Albinus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I wrote completion code for Tramp 3 years ago, I've introduced a > somehow obscure heuristic determining what is meant. This works more or > less the usual cases, but it breaks ido. Please note that I have managed to work around most problems in

Re: tramp (2.0.51); tramp and file-name-all-completions

2005-10-16 Thread Michael Albinus
"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would say these problems are all bugs in tramp. Yes. > file-name-all-completions has a simple spec, > and in principle it ought to work "right" for all meaningful args. The problem is the syntactical ambiguity of Tramp file names. (file-name

Re: tramp (2.0.51); tramp and file-name-all-completions

2005-10-16 Thread Richard M. Stallman
I would say these problems are all bugs in tramp. file-name-all-completions has a simple spec, and in principle it ought to work "right" for all meaningful args. If there are some cases where it is just hopeless to ask tramp to do completion correctly, we could decide on some return value that mea