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26.1; Please support creating a remote temporary file with Tramp

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at>
Cc: 38010 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38010: 26.1; Please support creating a remote temporary file with Tramp
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 08:57:35 +0100

Markus Triska <triska <at> metalevel.at> 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.

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