Re: tramp (2.2.5-pre); Lingering default-directory causing damage

[Michael Albinus]

Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Dave,

during my monthly check of the SPAM folder, I've found your message. No
idea why my provider believes you belong to, hopefully they don't
continue to handle you so.

>> But it would be a good reason to ask the gnus folks for proper use of
>> `gnus-default-directory', if they don't.
>
> What do you consider "proper" in this case?  Do you think you might ask,
> if you are clear on what the right behavior is.

Yes. For every single process-file call, they shall wrap it by

(let ((default-directory (or gnus-default-directory default-directory)))
  (process-file ...))

Hopefully, they do. Have you tried to check, whether 

(setq gnus-default-directory "/tmp")

or something similar works for you?

> Best Regards,

Best regards, Michael.