Re: tramp en/decoding

[Michael Albinus]

Sebastian Luque <sluque@mun.ca> writes:

> Hello,

Hi,

> I've encountered problems with tramp (2.0.48) encoding or decoding in my
> GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i386-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of
> 2005-03-17 on trouble, modified by Debian. I sometimes use tramp to edit
> some files as root by using /su::/path/to/file. When I do that, some
> "garbage" characters get automatically inserted and (in some cases) text
> around those characters also get modified. Gnus doesn't let me send an
> example of the results, as it warns there are "non-printable characters"
> and the message wouldn't be sent if they're kept.

Could you try "M-x tramp-submit-bug"? This should prepare a message
with needed details.

> I have also not set any of the encoding variables explicitly myself and I
> can't find anything in the manual that could help me here.
>
> Any help with this is greatly appreciated,

Best regards, Michael.