Emacs Tramp SSH Hostname Completion

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 19:00:00 +0300

I store ssh configurations in separate files with categories. Forexample personal servers and work related servers are stored different files. Include directive is used to define external files in ~/.ssh/config. A configuration like below is very useful.

# ~/.ssh/ssh_config_company1
Host top-secret-prod-host
Hostname prod.example.com
User root
# ~/.ssh/ssh_config_company2
Host top-secret-dev-host
Hostname dev.example.com
User root
# ~/.ssh/config
Include ssh_config_company1
Include ssh_config_company2

But with default configuration, emacs tramp hostname auto completion is not working. When I use full name of the host, it connects to machine successfuly. But when try to complete hostname with TAB, it is not working. After a little research, I lost my all hopes to fix the problem. But I saw a configuration on a unrelated stackoverflow post. When I try, it fixed the my problem.

(tramp-set-completion-function
 "ssh"
 '((tramp-parse-sconfig "/etc/ssh_config")
 (tramp-parse-sconfig "~/.ssh/config")))

It could be useful when similar problems.

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Emacs Tramp SSH Hostname Completion