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

[Peter Woo]

Thanks to Kai's explanation, have 'discovered' the mystic ":" file 
stream on XP.  Have now used the 'managed' mount option of Cygwin to my 
backup directories for accepting filenames with ":" embedded.

However, while it works fine for tramp's ftp option, for ssh, it fails 
when saving.  The 'Not a tramp file' error still appears.

Initially, I thought it was the "!" which causes the problem this time 
but when using the code below to translate "!" to "#", it still failed.  
Actually, perhaps it's not a valid guess because with 'ftp' option, the 
full filename does get saved to the backup dir.  The error msg:

Not a tramp file name: 
/home/woop/.emacs.d/autoback/!ssh:address@hidden:!home!subnet142.com!admin!test~

So...
Many thanks,
P.

Michael Albinus wrote:

> 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))
>
>  
>
> Best regards, Michael.
>
>