Re: Tramp drags down, bearings screeching, brakes overheating

[Michael Albinus]

Devon Sean McCullough <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Devon,

> Thank you for working on tramp, it make a big difference which I
> really appreciate.  I have another tramp question, not sure where to
> ask...

<address@hidden> is the place to go.

> Emacs hangs for a long, long time when there's a modified remote file
> even after I manually set buffer-auto-save-file-name to a local file
> so I set it to nil to disable auto save in the remote buffer,
> know a better way?

Setting to a local file is the best guess.

>               Peace
>                       —Devon
>
> P.S. I might guess it has something to do with checking for version control
> Tramp: Checking ‘vc-registered’ for /scp:address@hidden:FILE…done
> (with appropriate substitutions) but whatever it is certainly cripples Emacs.

If you don't use vc, you can disable it completely by

(setq vc-handled-backends nil)

Best regards, Michael.