Subject: bug#29440: Tramp put drive_c in the backup file name when backuping in local PC/windows

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:21:02 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Eli,

> With your example, this produces
>
>   "c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/backup/[email-masked]!!!home!albinus!tmp!123"
>
> Or maybe prepend a slashe before calling subst-char-in-string?  That
> would produce
>
>   "c:/Users/lb01177/AppData/Roaming/.emacs.d/backup/[email-masked]!!!home!albinus!tmp!123"
>
> WDYT?

I'd prefer the second variant. It makes it more obvious where the file
name is transformed from, keeping the leading slash.

Best regards, Michael.