From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org list" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Saving a remote buffer into a local file
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 09:42:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8Pv0gkQ8_WxGKBGJa8MjWvgo7L_4kA7kG75q41-efZBKL8zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvat4zbka.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org>
Hi Stefan and Eli,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:10 PM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Suppose I visit some remote file:
>> C-x C-f /ssh:user1@host1:/path1/file1
>> Now, I want to save the resulting buffer into a local file. Doing:
>> C-x C-w ~/file2
>> does not work, since in will create a file in the remote host (host1).
>
> It works for me if I add a "C-a C-k":
>
> C-x C-w C-a C-k ~/file2
That works here[1] too. That's an easier way of creating the local
file. Thank you!
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>> Answering myself: Yes, it seems so: Just quote the local path with "/:":
>>
>> C-x C-w /:~/file2
Actually, what I did was
C-x C-w C-a C-k /:~/file2
> Yes. However, don't expect this to resolve to a file in your local
> home directory. That's what currently happens on MS-Windows (not on
> Unix),
For the record: this ("/:~" resolving to my local home directory)
does happen here[1].
> but it will go away in Emacs 26, where "~/" will no longer
> expand to HOME in quoted file names. Instead, you will get
> DEFDIR/~/file2, where DEFDIR is the default-directory of the buffer
> from which you invoke the command. That's because "/:" is supposed to
> quote the tilde as well, allowing to use it as a literal character in
> a file name.
Ok, so IIUC, from Emacs 26 onwards, if I want to save the remote
buffer into a local file, I will have to specify an explicit, absolute
quoted path like "/:/home/dani/foo" (or follow Stefan's suggestion,
which is easier actually).
Thanks.
--
Dani Moncayo
Footnotes:
[1] My environment: Cygwin + Emacs 25.1 (distributed with cygwin).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-25 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-24 9:07 Saving a remote buffer into a local file Dani Moncayo
2017-01-24 9:37 ` Dani Moncayo
2017-01-24 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-01-24 16:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-01-25 8:42 ` Dani Moncayo [this message]
2017-01-25 9:51 ` Michael Albinus
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