GNU bug report logs - #50187
28.0.50; tramp is called from calendar

Previous Next

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>, 50187 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50187: 28.0.50; tramp is called from calendar
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 11:48:29 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

>> `default-directory' should be remote only when there is a definite
>> reason for that (IOW, for remote files and directories),
>> it should not be inherited by non-file buffers at random.
>
> It would be a break with how Emacs has worked for decades, so I don't
> think that's something we could do in general.
>
> I'm not even sure we could provide a user option for this -- if we're
> not using the normal default directory here, which one should we choose
> for `default-directory'?  "~/"?  "/"?

I agree.

> If starting calendar while in a Tramp buffer is problematic for you,
> then I think the solution is to not do that, I'm afraid.

If the problem is reproducible, we shall catch it. Set tramp-verbose to
10. Next morning, when the Tramp problem has appeared, the Tramp debug
buffer shall tell us what happened. Please show the buffer.

Best regards, Michael.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.