bug#7583: 23.2; ido loads tramp too eagerly

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>>>> without starting tramp
>>>>> I do not know what that means.
>>>> I mean trying to connect to a remote host via tramp.
>>> So you're saying that Tramp tries to connect to "toto" when you type
>>> "/toto:"?
>> Yes, but that is what we expect. (/toto: should be a valid hostname
>> maybe set in ~/.ssh/config)
>> What we don't want is when you write:
>> /ssh: => tramp try to connect
>
> Does this happen?  Where does it connect to?
>
>> /sudo: ==> tramp try to connect
>
> Again, where does Tramp try to connect in this case?
No where, that's the problem.

>> we expect tramp to connect only when we have:
>> /sudo:: and not before (i.e before entering the second ":").
>
> When I do C-x C-f /ssh: TAB Tramp does not try to connect to anything,
> it just shows me some hostname completion.
Because this implementation works for vanilla emacs completion, but is
unusable elsewhere. (like try-completion)

>> But I have no problem here with my code (anything), 
>> it seem the problem is in ido and/or icomplete.
>
> I get the same behavior with or without icomplete-mode.  I think we need
> you to give us a more specific recipe.
So it's ok if it works, just forget it.

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