file completion and partial-completion starting with a remote filespec

[Klaus Zeitler]

Symptoms:

1. start emacs -q --no-site-file

2. in scratch buffer select ftp as tramp protocol to <remote_host> with:
(eval-after-load "tramp"
  '(add-to-list 'tramp-default-method-alist '("<remote_host>" "" "ftp")))

3. use partial-completion
(partial-completion-mode 1)

4. load a file, e.g.
C-x C-f /<remote_host>:/tmp/

5. in this buffer execute again C-x C-f and erase the default
"/<remote_host>:/tmp/" in minibuffer.
Now enter a name that is not unique and press <space> to complete this
name (e.g. having ~/file and ~/file-2 in your home dir, enter ~/fil<space>)

emacs will now print "Doing CD..." and wait for a second before the completed
name is shown.
This looks to me as if completion of this name is still done via ftp
on the remote host, even so I've wiped it out in the minibuffer.
Is this behavior intended?
Without partial-completion-mode everything works just fine. 


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, Motif Version 2.1.0)
 of 2004-02-19 on sfsws4
configured using `configure '--with-gcc' 
'--prefix=/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/emacs/cvs' 
'--sharedstatedir=/vol/freeware/SunOS-5.8/emacs/cvs/share' 
'--with-x-toolkit=motif' 
'--x-includes=/usr/openwin/include:/usr/local/gnu/include' 
'--x-libraries=/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/gnu/lib' '--with-pop' 'CC=gcc''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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