Issue completing ssh hostnames when using orderless

[oantolin]

Issue completing ssh hostnames when using orderless

[minad]

Copying my comment from minad/vertico#68:

It seems that only the basic completion style shows hostnames. My recommendation is to define a special completion style basic-remote which uses basic only for remote files:

(defun basic-remote-try-completion (string table pred point)
  (and (vertico--remote-p string)
       (completion-basic-try-completion string table pred point)))

(defun basic-remote-all-completions (string table pred point)
  (and (vertico--remote-p string)
       (completion-basic-all-completions string table pred point)))

(add-to-list
 'completion-styles-alist
 '(basic-remote basic-remote-try-completion basic-remote-all-completions nil))

(setq completion-category-overrides '((file (styles basic-remote orderless))))

Alternatively you can configure to use basic in combination with orderless, but this may be undesired, since it will affect every file completion, not only remote files.

(setq completion-category-overrides '((file (styles basic orderless))))

[minad]

Note that substring also does not support host name completion. It is really required to use basic for this to work.

Related issues with dynamic tables, which do not work with substring or orderless: #20, #24, #45, #79

[plattfot]

Thanks @minad! I'm using the special completion style basic-remote and works perfectly for me.

I'm closing this issue as this solves my issue.

[oantolin]

Thanks @minad!