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

[Dave Abrahams]

on Sun Jul 22 2012, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus-AT-gmx.de> wrote:

> 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.

Done

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