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

[Michael Albinus]

Dave Abrahams <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Maybe you report this to bug#11666? It could be closed then, I believe.

Best regards, Michael.