Re: tramp autosave problem

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, address@hidden wrote:
> Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> It works great, except for autosave errors:
>>
>> Auto-saving layouts-template.html: Opening output file: no such
>> file or directory,
>> /usr/src/build/86444-i386/BUILD/emacs-21.2/src/#layouts-template.html#
>> Auto-saving...done
> 
> Why does it complain about this file, where you told it to auto-save
> locally in ~/.tramp-autosave?  Strange.
> 
> What's the autosave filename for the buffer?  (I think evaling
> (make-auto-save-file-name) should tell you.)
> 
> I think that there is a problem with the current Tramp autosaving
> mechanism, as there is now a built-in method in Emacs 21, via
> auto-save-file-name-transforms.  Tramp should use this mechanism.
> Any takers?

Strangely enough, I haven't seen the problem again.  It only happened
the first day I used tramp, if that makes any sense (I did exit Emacs
and reload it to make sure the problem was not isolated).

Ted