High Latency Survival Tactics (Was: Re: Thunderbird stupid about X traffic?)

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Fri Sep 14 20:40:18 EDT 2007


> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:19:19 -0400
> From: "Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com>

> On 9/14/07, Bill Freeman <f at ke1g.mv.com> wrote:
> > The tougher thing is if you want to send an incomplete line sometime.
> > Say, to request the remote shell to do filename completeion.
> 
>   I suspect file name completion might be one of those "advanced
> features" one has to give up when you go back to the bad-old-days of
> high-latency links and local editing.

Again, tractable within Emacs: make sure the filename you want to
complete appears somewhere in the buffer and type: M-x hippie-expand.
Alternatively, you could write a hippie function to complete on remote
filenames... but that would require writing elisp.  Ewww.


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