How do I disable path completion on remote hosts?

[weilbith]

What do you want?

Allow to disable the completion of paths while typing commands like scp with paths on other hosts.

Why do you want this?

I use a YubiKey to authenticate myself to other hosts. When I start to type a path for a scp command the auto-completion continuously unfocuses my terminal and focus a window to authenticate myself. Clicking it away will just cause a loop each time I type something. This is incredibly annoying. Even when I authenticate myself, due to my strict caching settings it will require me to authenticate over and over again.

Who else would benefit from this?

I guess everyone using the scp command and a password protected private SSH key or other authentication mechanisms that require user interactions.

Example scenario

scp ~/local/path user@remote_name:/p... <-- immediate trouble

[marlonrichert]

Use this:

zstyle ':completion:*' remote-access no

See https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Completion-System.html#index-remote_002daccess_002c-completion-style

[weilbith]

Okay it is that easy. Sorry that I thought I must disable for this plugin here.
Thanks for the help! Saves me a lot of nerves.

[marlonrichert]

You're welcome!

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