Re: autosaving isn't working.

[Kai Großjohann]

Ryan Hodges <address@hidden> writes:

> For some reason autosaving doesn't work with tramp. As soon as the
> autosave mechanism is triggered, the following message is printed:
>
> Auto-saving...
> Auto-saving cc_publication_manifest.pm: Opening output file: no such
> file or directory,
> /usr/src/build/225504-i386/BUILD/emacs-21.2/src/#cc_publication_manifest.pm#

This looks like a local file.

Do you have problems with autosaving all files, or just remote files?

What does M-: (make-auto-save-file-name) RET print when you invoke it
from a buffer where autosaving fails?

> Auto-saving...done
> Auto-saving...
> Auto-saving cc_publication_manifest.pm: Opening output file: no such
> file or directory,
> /usr/src/build/225504-i386/BUILD/emacs-21.2/src/#cc_publication_manifest.pm#
>
> Here is some debugging information:
>
> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d
> scroll bars)
>  of 2003-02-19 on porky.devel.redhat.com
> Package: tramp (2.0.36)
>
> My tramp autosave directory is set to nil.

It might also help to set it to a directory name.  For example, I
created a directory ~/.tramp and then (setq tramp-auto-save-directory
"~/.tramp/").

But maybe you *want* the autosaves to go to the remote directory, in
that case, I'll have to fix the bug I'm afraid :-)

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