Re: tramp (2.0.57); file-coding-system-alist not respected

[Andreas Schwab]

William Xu <address@hidden> writes:

> Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I fear this cannot work in Tramp. Tramp uses temporary files on the
>> local host. They are not located at ".*source.*", rather they are
>> somewhere at "/tmp/*". So I have no clue how to support your settings.
>
> How about adding file path as part(prefix, suffix, or something like
> that) of the filename under /tmp/* ? For example,
> "/tmp/path_to_source_foo.cpp", replacing `/' with `_'.

One problem with this is that it gives predictable file names, a bad
thing to have in a world writable directory.

Probably a better way to solve that is to create a way to tell
insert-file-contents the original file name to be used for deciding the
coding system.

Andreas.

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