Re: Turning off remote backups

On 21/8/26 00:34, Michael Albinus wrote:

> So I've decided to fix it. I made a small patch to Tramp, pushed to the
> Tramp and Emacs repositories. Now, the manual reads
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>     In case you do not want to use backup files for remote files, use
> connection-local variable ‘make-backup-files’ (*note (emacs)Connection
> Variables::) like this:
> 
>       (connection-local-set-profile-variables
>        'no-remote-backup-files '((make-backup-files . nil)))
> 
>       (connection-local-set-profiles
>        '(:application tramp) 'no-remote-backup-files)
> 
> Disabling backups can be targeted to just the ‘su’ and ‘sudo’ methods:
> 
>       (connection-local-set-profiles
>        '(:application tramp :protocol "su") 'no-remote-backup-files)
> 
>       (connection-local-set-profiles
>        '(:application tramp :protocol "sudo") 'no-remote-backup-files)
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
>> Thanks for your work on TRAMP. I find it incredibly useful!
> 
> This patch will also be available on GNU ELPA with Tramp 2.8.2.2,
> scheduled for the end of this month.

Brilliant, thanks very much Michael, I really appreciate it. I'll look 
forward to trying it out!

Regards,
Ben