Re: ssh host completion: ~/.ssh/config vs /etc/hosts

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-08-10 12:50:39 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Aug 10, 12:33pm, Moritz Bunkus wrote:
> }
> } I just noticed this interesting thing: if certain hosts are listed in
> } /etc/hosts then the ssh completion will complete _but not list_ hosts in
> } ~/.ssh/config that have the same prefix.
> 
> At the very top of _ssh_hosts is:
> 
>   # If users-hosts matches, we shouldn't complete anything else.
> 
> The users-hosts completion looks at /etc/hosts and ~/.ssh/known_hosts,
> so hosts from your ~/.ssh/config are only completed when no possible
> matches are found in either of those other places.

This behavior doesn't make much sense.

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