Hi Michael,
I have set the default tramp method to ftp, but my understanding is that it
defers its operations to ange-ftp, but still uses its interface on top of it.
Ange-ftp was much simpler than tramp, and didn't offer host name completion
etc. I don't really need host name completion. I'm happy to type the host
name in the first time. But when doing a completion on an ange-ftp path name
(e.g. /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/...), emacs would complete that to the full ange-ftp path.
This wouldn't work until you had first loaded a file from [EMAIL PROTECTED], 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.
Cheers
-Matthew
Michael Albinus wrote:
Matthew Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Michael,
Hi Matthew,
So say I opened a file on a server using the path
/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/public_html/myfile.txt
Now I'm editing some local file and I want to open myfile2.txt in the
remote folder at a later stage. Under ange-ftp, at the find-file:
prompt I could type in (e.g.) "/user<TAB>" and the completion would
search through the file paths of all the buffers (taken at face value)
and find /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/public_html/ as a folder, and complete it
for me. This saved a lot of hostname and pathname typing. I can't
seem to do this with tramp. Typing "/user<TAB>" gives me no
completions. Maybe it's being cleverer than I want and trying to
interpret the path?
Some few checks:
- Is there an entry "machine myhost.com login user" in your ~/.netrc?
I guess yes, because it worked for you before.
- What is your default Tramp method? It shall be "ftp", if you want to
use ange-ftp. Check "C-h v tramp-default-method".
Btw, setting tramp-default-method is mentioned in the NEWS of Emacs
22.1, which you can read via "C-h n".
Cheers
-Matthew
Best regards, Michael.
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