Michael Albinus <michael.albi...@gmx.de> wrote: > Nick Dokos <nicholas.do...@hp.com> writes: > > > See > > > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/62963 > > I've seen that. > > > It was a weird setting of the variable ``temporary-file-directory'' in > > Neil's Macport setup, plus the assumption by tramp that that setting was > > valid for the remote - that turned out to be a bad assumption. Not sure > > it's worth it for tramp to provide a way to customize that, but that's > > your decision :-) AFAIAC, /tmp should be a universal standard. > > I don't believe it is a weird setting of `temporary-file-directory'. It > is a valid value for OS X, AFAIK. > > And "/tmp" isn't a universal standard. For example, it doesn't work, > when your local machine runs MS Windows. > > The patch in Tramp I have mentioned tries to distinguish between local > and remote temporary directories. I would like to know, whether this > works correctly for org-mode, or whether there is still an issue. >
OK - thanks. Sorry for the noise. Trying-to-get-foot-out-of-mouth-ly yours, Nick