Re: tramp (2.2.5-pre); Lingering default-directory causing damage

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Jul 04 2012, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus-AT-gmx.de> wrote:

> Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> during my monthly check of the SPAM folder, I've found your message. No
> idea why my provider believes you belong to, hopefully they don't
> continue to handle you so.
>
>>> But it would be a good reason to ask the gnus folks for proper use of
>>> `gnus-default-directory', if they don't.
>>
>> What do you consider "proper" in this case?  Do you think you might ask,
>> if you are clear on what the right behavior is.
>
> Yes. For every single process-file call, they shall wrap it by
>
> (let ((default-directory (or gnus-default-directory default-directory)))
>   (process-file ...))
>
> Hopefully, they do. Have you tried to check, whether 
>
> (setq gnus-default-directory "/tmp")
>
> or something similar works for you?

I customized it to "~" and I haven't been seeing the problem since.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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