Re: tramp (2.0.50); Spurious buffer opens when saving on a FAT system

[Michael Albinus]

Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hallöchen!

Hi,

(irgendwie weiss ich nicht recht, wie man auf "Hallöchen" angemessen
in Englisch antwortet)

>> This buffer pops up in case Tramp detects an error.
>
> But it's always there (normally in the background), isn't it?

Sure, this is the connection buffer Tramp needs internally.

>> It could be because of this. In order to exclude the problem with
>> backups, you might customize `backup-directory-alist' or
>> `tramp-backup-directory-alist' (see the doc).
>
> I set tramp-backup-directory-alist to ("." . "/home/bronger/temp/")
> and now all is quiet.  Well, the buffer with very similar contents
> is still there but it doesn't pop up.

So let's assume the problem is gone. Maybe Tramp should be a little
bit more verbose about its inconvenience, but this is another story.

But you should be aware that Tramp now always writes into the
directory "/home/bronger/temp/" on the remote host. If you login under
another user name, this might fail. Using "~/temp/" would be more
general, because the tilde is expanded on the remote host.

> Tschö,
> Torsten.

Best regards, Michael.