Re: tramp (2.0.39); backup file naming error (%backup% resulted)

[Peter Woo]

I guess ":" is a problem on NT or Cygwin Emacs.  A Cygwin "touch" test 
on a filename such as "test:abc" would result in a file "test" with 
everything after ":" lost.  And if under Cygwin Emacs, it can't even be 
created but resulted in the generic filename "%backup%".

So, I would say translating the ":" to something else such as "!" would 
solve my problem.  However, not sure whether this is a preference for 
all platforms.  Perhaps a tramp variable for tweaking?

Thks,
P.
Michael Albinus wrote:

Peter Woo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 

So, rather than using the workaround, which ends up having "~"
suffixed backups all over the places, is it possible to enable tramp
to use absolute path backup dir?
   

I did the following test:

(add-to-list 'backup-directory-alist
            (cons tramp-file-name-regexp "/tmp"))
Playing with "/sudo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/albinus/123" on my host gave
me a backup file "/tmp/!sudo:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:!home!albinus!123.~1~".
Would this be sufficient for you?
 

Many thanks,
P.
   

Best regards, Michael.



 



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