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tramp: File name completion

 
 5.2 File name completion
 ========================
 
 TRAMP can complete the following TRAMP file name components: method
 names, user names, host names, and file names located on remote hosts.
 Enable this by activating partial completion in ‘.emacs’.  
 (emacs)Completion Options.
 
    For example, type ‘C-x C-f /t <TAB>’, TRAMP completion choices show
 up as
 
      telnet:                              tmp/
      toto:
 
    ‘telnet:’ is a possible completion for the respective method, ‘tmp/’
 stands for the directory ‘/tmp’ on your local host, and ‘toto:’ might be
 a host TRAMP has detected in your ‘~/.ssh/known_hosts’ file (when using
 ‘ssh’ as default method).
 
    Type ‘e <TAB>’ for the minibuffer completion to ‘/telnet:’.  Typing
 ‘<TAB>’ shows host names TRAMP from ‘/etc/hosts’ file, for example.
 
      /telnet:127.0.0.1:                   /telnet:192.168.0.1:
      /telnet:[::1]:                       /telnet:localhost:
      /telnet:melancholia.danann.net:      /telnet:melancholia:
 
    Choose a host from the above list and then continue to complete file
 names on that host.
 
    When the configuration (Customizing Completion) includes user
 names, then the completion lists will account for the user names as
 well.
 
    Remote hosts previously visited or hosts whose connections are kept
 persistently (Connection caching) will be included in the
 completion lists.
 
    After remote host name completion comes completion of file names on
 the remote host.  It works the same as with local host file completion,
 except that killing with double-slash ‘//’ kills only the file name part
 of the TRAMP file name syntax.  A triple-slash stands for the default
 behavior.  (emacs)Minibuffer File.
 
 Example:
 
      C-x C-f /telnet:melancholia:/usr/local/bin//etc <TAB>
           ⊣ /telnet:melancholia:/etc
 
      C-x C-f /telnet:melancholia://etc <TAB>
           ⊣ /etc
 
      C-x C-f /telnet:melancholia:/usr/local/bin///etc <TAB>
           ⊣ /etc
 
 
    During file name completion, remote directory contents are re-read
 regularly to account for any changes in the filesystem that may affect
 the completion candidates.  Such re-reads can account for changes to the
 file system by applications outside Emacs (Connection caching).
 
  -- User Option: tramp-completion-reread-directory-timeout
      The timeout is number of seconds since last remote command for
      rereading remote directory contents.  0 re-reads immediately during
      file name completion, ‘nil’ uses cached directory contents.
 

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