Eric Brunson wrote: > I imagine you'd have similar problems since the crux of the issue is > that emacs can't write its backup to the directory you're editing in. > Nothing intrinsic to tramp at all. Not as I understand it. From what I gather (because I've bumped into this before using TRAMP), the problem is that you'll use tramp to open the file: /path/to/some/foreign/directory/with/file, which works fine. But Emacs doesn't know that it has to use an SSH connection to some host to create a backup, so it's looking to create /path/to/some/foreign/directory/with/file~, on the *LOCAL* machine, which may or may not exist. I guess that the other solution would be to write your own little hook for C-x C-s (looks like write-file-hooks would do it). -- Steve Juranich Tucson, AZ USA
