Martin Yrjölä <martin.yrj...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi John, > > John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: > >> Hi, I opened an org file using tramp on a remote server. It opened fine, >> and I had no trouble writing text and saving it. For fun I tried running >> a src block (a shell block that just returned the hostname), and got >> this error: >> >>>%s'...failed >> tramp-file-name-handler: Couldn't write region to >> `/scp:jkitc...@gilgamesh.cheme.cmu.edu:/var/folders/5q/lllv2yf95hg_n6h6kjttbmdw0000gn/T/ob-input-30024dza', >> decode using `base64 -d -i >%s' failed >> >> Should this have worked? It looks like it tried to write a local path >> from my Mac to the server, and that path doesn't exist there. >> >> Some details (not sure they are relevant): >> I am running Emacs on a Mac, and opened a file on a remote Centos5 >> server. > > Howard Abrams has written an extensive answer to this problem in his > blog [1]. The problem is that the Mac uses a different folder for > temporary files. Howard also proposes a fix and refers to a mailing list > message regarding the bug [2].
I think it would be nice if one could find a fix for this in org. > > Hope this helps, > Martin > > [1] http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html#fn.2 > [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2013-09/msg00992.html > > -- Rainer M. Krug email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de PGP: 0x0F52F982
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