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

[Michael Albinus]

Peter Woo <address@hidden> writes:

> Got you point also.  I guess for me, to convince the Emacs maintainers
> is more applicable to my case because I don't how to code my own
> function for hooking to tramp...  Besides, at files.el level, it
> probably could solve for all which uses ":" in filenames.  I'll check
> on the Emacs list.

As workaround you can try this one (together with setting
`backup-directory-alist'):

(defadvice make-backup-file-name
  (after tramp-advice-make-backup-file-name activate)
  "Converting \":\" for Tramp file names."
  (subst-char-in-string ?: ?! ad-return-value 'inplace))

> Many thanks,
> P.

Best regards, Michael.