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Re: tramp error: Opening output file, etc
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Neon Absentius |
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Re: tramp error: Opening output file, etc |
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Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:00:54 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.4.2.1i |
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:22:18AM -0400, ken wrote:
> From the little I know of emacs, I'm guessing that tramp/emacs is
> trying to save a temporary file and doesn't have write permission in the
> subdir it's configured to do this in. (It's kind of nuts to have this
> subdir as the default for this.) How do I change this?
Well you can set the variable "tramp-auto-save-directory".
I prefer to have tramp to auto-save locally (its much faster) so I
have in my .emacs
(setq tramp-auto-save-directory "/tmp")
> I would prefer to put #todo# in the same subdir as todo... and
> this would seem to make the most sense as the default for
> everyone.
>
Yes indeed (the speed issue aside). I am not sure how to do that,
the naive
(setq tramp-auto-save-directory (pwd))
wont work due to the semantics of evaluation in Lisp, I think.
It will evaluate (pwd) at start-up and then assign that value
to the variable.
Probably there is a standard way to get "dynamically" the working
directory. Any suggestions?
>
> tnx,
> ken
>
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