From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tramp error: Opening output file: no such file or directory, /usr/src/packages/BUILD/emacs-21.3/src/#todo# Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:05:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20051005072218.171f117b@dellap.mousecar.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128524761 29564 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2005 15:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 15:06:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 05 17:05:56 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENAq2-0001Tv-CA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 17:05:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENAq1-0001Fd-P5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENApo-0001FE-1I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:32 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ENApm-0001EM-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ENApm-0001EJ-77 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:30 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.113.59.95] (helo=mailrelay1.alcatel.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ENApl-0000z4-M2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:05:29 -0400 Original-Received: from slbwba.alcatel.de (slbwba.bln.sel.alcatel.de [149.204.93.70]) by mailrelay1.alcatel.de (8.12.10/8.12.10/ICT TSC MAIL 2005) with ESMTP id j95F5QG0001741; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 17:05:27 +0200 Original-To: ken In-Reply-To: <20051005072218.171f117b@dellap.mousecar.net> (gebser@speakeasy.net's message of "Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:22:18 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/20.7 (hpux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.49 on 149.204.45.72 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29943 Archived-At: ken writes: > A few days I finally got tramp installed and working. V.2.1.3. It > connects and opens up files and directories (dired) fine. Then just > now, while editing a file (named todo) with it, I got this error message > in the minibuffer: > > Opening output file: no such file or directory, > /usr/src/packages/BUILD/emacs-21.3/src/#todo# > > From the little I know of emacs, I'm guessing that tramp/emacs is > trying to save a temporary file and doesn't have write permission in the > subdir it's configured to do this in. (It's kind of nuts to have this > subdir as the default for this.) How do I change this? I would prefer > to put #todo# in the same subdir as todo... and this would seem to make > the most sense as the default for everyone. Read the Tramp manual, section "Auto-save and Backup". It explains your problem. The solution should be (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms nil) > tnx, > ken Best regards, Michael.