Re: Default temporary directory in Windows/NTEmacs

[Michael Albinus]

Andy Sheen <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Andy,

> With some debug, this is due to this line:
>
> (eval (car (get 'temporary-file-directory 'standard-value)))
>
> which pulls the original value of temporary-file-directory from the
> variable. Is there any way to override the variable without resorting to
> changing the code in tramp-compat.el? I'm assuming this is an easier
> question to answer than my other one ;)

See (info "(elisp)Unique File Names")

Setting %TMPDIR% to a proper value before starting Emacs shall do the job.

> Thanks
>
> Andy

Best regards, Michael.