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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Shuguang Sun <shuguang@gmail.com>
Cc: 29440@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29440: Tramp put drive_c in the backup file name when backuping in local PC/windows
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:18:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831skm88vm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACspjXfUm+uwXmfagyiuOTqWH9S4nrLAtcXRk48B47-A_MSBCA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Shuguang Sun on Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:08:42 +0800)

> From: Shuguang Sun <shuguang@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 00:08:42 +0800
> 
> Windows 7
> GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-11-24
> 
> I didn't set tramp-backup-directory-alist which means the fiile will be backuped locally instead of being backup
> in server side.
> 
> backup-directory-alist:
>      ("\\.[rR]\\(md\\)?$" . "~/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles")
> 
> When I open a file in tramp and edit it, the backup file will be and was backuped in the local direcory:
> ~/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles (c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles). However the backfile is
> named
> "c:/Users/username/HOME/.emacs.d/autosave/Rfiles/!drive_c!plink!!username@host!!!opt!bee!home!username!test!coxph_bench.r.~2~",
> where "dirve_c" was put in.

Maybe I'm confused, but what did you expect to happen instead?  When
files are backed-up in a single directory, the drive letters cannot be
kept because Windows doesn't allow colons in file names.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-11-25 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-11-25 16:08 bug#29440: Tramp put drive_c in the backup file name when backuping in local PC/windows Shuguang Sun
2017-11-25 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-11-26  6:00   ` Shuguang Sun
2017-11-27 17:24 ` Michael Albinus
2017-11-27 18:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-11-27 20:21     ` Michael Albinus
2017-11-30 19:23       ` Michael Albinus
2017-12-01 18:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-01 10:42       ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-02 11:34         ` Michael Albinus
2018-02-05 13:31           ` Michael Albinus
2018-02-06  9:12             ` Shuguang Sun
2018-02-07  7:37               ` Michael Albinus

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