Subject: Re: bug#38010: 26.1; Please support creating a remote temporary file with Tramp

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:57:35 +0100

Markus Triska <[email-masked]> writes:

Hi Markus,

> I am working on an Emacs application that spawns a remote process via
> start-file-process. That process will use a remote file that should
> ideally be generated in analogy to a local temporary file as can be
> obtained with make-temp-file.
>
> Specifically, the application is ediprolog, and there is user demand for
> extending it to work with remote Prolog processes:
>
>     https://github.com/triska/ediprolog/issues/4
>
> Hence, it would be really useful if for example make-temp-file could be
> extended to create a temporary file on the remote machine.

There is `make-nearby-temp-file' for that purpose.

I'm closing the bug as "notabug". Feel free to come back if it doesn't
work for you.

> Thank you and all the best!
> Markus

Best regards, Michael.