Re: Please change the naming template for temporary files

"R. Diez" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi all:

Hi,

> One of the issues I am facing is that Tramp is leaving behind temporary files on the remote server like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  0 2025-08-10 11:02 tmp1eghjG
>
> You may not realise that Tramp is littering the disk that way, and when you (or some other sysadmin) realise about those orphaned files next month, such filenames make it hard to know exactly was caused the problem and what file it was related to.

Are you sure it comes from Tramp? Tramp temporary file names always
start with "tramp.", see tramp-temp-name-prefix.

> I suggest a change in Tramp's temporary file naming policy. For a file like:
>
> myfile.txt
>
> I suggest a temporary filename like:
>
> myfile.txt.EmacsTrampTmp1eghjG

That wouldn't be possible. An extension, like ".txt", must be kept.

> Regards,
>   rdiez

Best regards, Michael.