In Emacs, how do I figure out which package is loading tramp?

Question

I have a strange interaction with tramp and cygwin-mount (I think: Emacs: Tab completion of file name appends an extra i:\\cygwin). Because of this, I want to disable tramp. I\'

Answer 1

I had a similar problem with tramp, when one day I found "/C:\...\debuglog.txt" on my system. Because of that file, auto-complete was invoking tramp each time I entered "/". And tramp was of course giving an error. auto-complete was calling

(expand-file-name ...)

which, because of the current file-name-handler-alist, was calling tramp. My solution was:

(delete-if
 (lambda (x)
   (or (eq (cdr x) 'tramp-completion-file-name-handler)
       (eq (cdr x) 'tramp-file-name-handler)))
 file-name-handler-alist)