Re: Please change the naming template for temporary files

"R. Diez" <[email protected]> writes:

>> Ahh, good. But pls show the backtrace here. Tramp is involved in
>> the file-precious-flag machinery.
>
> My Emacs debugging skills are not great, but I believe I found the related code.
>
> Function basic-save-buffer-2 in files.el builds the temporary filename like this:
>
> (setq tempname
>   (make-temp-file
>    (expand-file-name "tmp" dir)))
>
> That is where those tmpXXXX filenames are coming from.
>
> In contrast, function make-auto-save-file-name in the same file uses the buffer's filename to construct the temporary filename:
>
> (make-temp-file
>  (let ((fname
>     (expand-file-name
>      (format "#%s#" buffer-name)

I've checked what Tramp does when file-precious-flag is set. Nothing wrt
the tmpfile template name, so we can ignore this case here.

For the general problem you have raised bug#79252. The problem shall be
discussed there.

Best regards, Michael.