  In dark energy models of scalar-field coupled to a barotropic perfect fluid,
the existence of cosmological scaling solutions restricts the Lagrangian of the
field $\vp$ to $p=X g(Xe^{\lambda \vp})$, where $X=-g^{\mu\nu} \partial_\mu \vp
\partial_\nu \vp /2$, $\lambda$ is a constant and $g$ is an arbitrary function.
We derive general evolution equations in an autonomous form for this Lagrangian
and investigate the stability of fixed points for several different dark energy
models--(i) ordinary (phantom) field, (ii) dilatonic ghost condensate, and
(iii) (phantom) tachyon. We find the existence of scalar-field dominant fixed
points ($\Omega_\vp=1$) with an accelerated expansion in all models
irrespective of the presence of the coupling $Q$ between dark energy and dark
matter. These fixed points are always classically stable for a phantom field,
implying that the universe is eventually dominated by the energy density of a
scalar field if phantom is responsible for dark energy. When the equation of
state $w_\vp$ for the field $\vp$ is larger than -1, we find that scaling
solutions are stable if the scalar-field dominant solution is unstable, and
vice versa. Therefore in this case the final attractor is either a scaling
solution with constant $\Omega_\vp$ satisfying $0<\Omega_\vp<1$ or a
scalar-field dominant solution with $\Omega_\vp=1$.

High Energy Physics - Theory;Astrophysics;General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;High Energy Physics - Phenomenology