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(tramp)Filename completion

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Filename completion
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Filename completion works with TRAMP for both completing methods, user
names and machine names (except multi hop methods) as well as for files
on remote machines.

   If you, for example, type `C-x C-f /t <TAB>', TRAMP might give you
as result the choice for

     telnet:				   tmp/
     toto:

   `telnet:' is a possible completion for the respective method, `tmp/'
stands for the directory `/tmp' on your local machine, and
`toto:' might be a host TRAMP has detected in your `~/.ssh/known_hosts'
file (given you're using default method `ssh').

   If you go on to type `e <TAB>', the minibuffer is completed to
`/telnet:'.  Next `<TAB>' brings you all machine names TRAMP detects in
your `/etc/hosts' file, let's say

     telnet:127.0.0.1:		   telnet:192.168.0.1:
     telnet:localhost:		   telnet:melancholia.danann.net:
     telnet:melancholia:

   Now you can choose the desired machine, and you can continue to
complete file names on that machine.

   As filename completion needs to fetch the listing of files from the
remote machine, this feature is sometimes fairly slow.  As TRAMP does
not yet cache the results of directory listing, there is no gain in
performance the second time you complete filenames.

   If the configuration files (Note: Customizing Completion), which
TRAMP uses for analysis of completion, offer user names, those user
names will be taken into account as well.