Re: tramp (2.0.25); saving remote buffer fails

[Kai Großjohann]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> I don't see the point why Tramp shall support find-backup-file-name
> this case. This function is forwarded to ange-ftp always (because the
> FTP method is active). ange-ftp hasn't implemented this method, but
> forwards it to the default handler.

Ah, forwarding to Ange-FTP is what I had in mind.  I forgot that
after your changes, everything works differently :-)  I think with
the old version, the forwarding might have failed.

So Tramp includes the "support" that I was thinking of, already.

> And this one doesn't know what to do:
>
> (find-backup-file-name "/ftp:localhost:.emacs")
> nil
>
> According to the documentation this is a valid answer ("If the value
> is nil, don't make a backup.") Usually there doesn't seem to be a
> problem if ange-ftp is used without Tramp. Hmm.

`Hmm' indeed!  I wonder what would happen if Tramp was removed from
file-name-handler-alist and Ange-FTP was added and then Clemens tried
to access the file via Ange-FTP (using the old syntax).

I hope I have time to debug this soon.
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