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I use Emacs at work and at home, both on Windows XP, both EmacsW32. On my work computer, if I setup FTP login details for a site, for example:

machine ftp.stackoverflow.com login codinghorror password orange

then if I want to ftp there from Emacs, I just type

/ftp.s<tab>

and it knows from my .netrc that it can autocomplete to 

/ftp.stackoverflow.com:

which is exactly what I want. On my home computer, the autocomplete just doesn't work, although it does once I'm on the server, so if I type:

/ftp.stackoverflow.com:public_h<tab>

it will autocomplete the html. Does anyone have any ideas as to why this might be?

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  • what do you mean by "once I'm on the server"? – Joe Casadonte Dec 12 '09 at 12:58
  • Once I'm on the server means once Emacs has connected to the FTP server. – Skilldrick Dec 12 '09 at 13:46
  • So, if I type in `/ftp.stackoverflow.com:public_h`, Emacs will connect to the remote server and work out the autocompletion. – Skilldrick Dec 12 '09 at 13:48
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    I'd like to know this too. But I suspect the reason is that TRAMP is not yet loaded when you're just writing "/ftp.s" (that could after all be a valid local folder), so Emacs doesn't know it could autocomplete. – Svend Nov 08 '10 at 09:12

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