Re: auto-saving and jka-compr-write-region

[Henrik Holm]

[Kai Großjohann]

>  Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>  
>  >     Do you have some suggestion what I should do about
>  >     the ".gz" suffix on the filename?
>  >
>  > Either remove the suffix, or do something else so that
>  > the file is auto-saved without compressing it.
>  
>  I have now appended "~" to the auto-save filename.
>  
>  But I do not feel happy with this solution.  I get the
>  feeling that it is something which will work fine for a
>  long time, and some years later, [...]

FWIW:

I might be out of key here, but why not let Tramp act
similarly to the way "local" Emacs does?

Let's say I edit the file foo.txt.gz.  Then, Emacs creates the
auto-save file #foo.txt.gz# -- which is not compressed!  I
won't judge wether that's good or bad (although I can't really
see the problem with it); but if Tramp is doing something
wrong, it is at least doing the same wrong as Emacs does.
(Tramp wouldn't, of course, need the #'s, but I still think
they should be there -- for the sake of consistency.)


Henrik.