Re: eshell completion: what on earth is /davs and why is it back?

On Fri, Jul 31, 2026, at 9:34 AM, Manuel Giraud wrote:
> Colin Baxter <[email protected]> writes:
>> Would customising the variable `eshell-cmpl-dir-ignore' help?
>
> I was not able to customize `eshell-cmpl-dir-ignore' to avoid this.  But
> there is also `eshell-cmpl-remote-file-ignore'.
>
> OP, you could customize it to t and it should fix your issue.  FTR, dav
> and davs are remote access methods supported by TRAMP.

oh, webdav?  now it makes sense. :)

seeing eshell sets eshell-cmpl-dir-ignore from pcomplete-remote-file-ignore, i've set the latter to t as i'm sometimes affected outside of eshell.  (i typically use eshell with emacsclient to open files, but not always.)  however, i still see /dav and /dav in completions for c-x c-f and a new instance of eshell.  looking at the commentary in pcomplete.el, it's not for c-x c-f, is it?

i could turn tramp off, but i think i'm going to want it for my android devices.  i'll see if i can turn only dav[s] off in tramp.