The cd command autocompletes local directories even on a remote ssh connection

[william-matz]

When I ssh into another machine and use the cd command, it autocompletes directories from my local machine, not the remote

[brendanfalk]

Got it.

For the moment, we will turn off autocomplete when you're in a remote machine. But we are exploring ways to make it work.

SSH is encrypted, so understandably, tapping into a connection is hard!

Will leave the issue open for the moment and use this as the space to discuss our progress on making it work.

[dipakparmar]

@falky97 could be possible to do with ssh tunnelling? 🤔

[brendanfalk]

@dipakparmar Agree. Pseudo terminals also a possibility. Ideally something that fits within the running process. Ideas welcome. This stack exchange post I did may shed some more light. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/614052/get-working-directory-inside-ssh-client-process-from-outside-process. Answer was a bit cryptic 😬

[brendanfalk]

Some more things to investigate:

• https://mosh.org/#techinfo & https://mosh.org/mosh-paper.pdf
• emacs tramp
• eshell

[brendanfalk]

v1.0.27 (just pushed) has fixed this.

1. When in SSH, we will now no longer show any suggestions for things that require a background process. e.g. file/folders, git remotes, heroku apps etc. We will still show subcommands normally.
2. When in a process that's not SSH, Bash, Zsh, or Fish, Fig will not deliver suggestions (e.g. if you're in a python repl)

Genius work from @mattschrage to get this working.