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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:36:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877exxpe25.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d6b82a7-034c-da82-5510-e9cdef3068c4@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

Hi Paul,

> By "Tramp quoting" I was referring to the technique you used in
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28156#23 to create a
> symlink whose name starts with "~", by prefixing the name with
> "/:/tmp/". I don't know why the "/:" is there ...

See the lower part of (info "(elisp) File Name Expansion")

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-21  7:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-20 10:28 bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 15:09   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-08-20 15:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 18:28         ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 18:53           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:15             ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 21:47               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  7:36                 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-08-20 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 21:31               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  2:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21  8:34                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 14:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 15:58                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 17:34           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:30               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22  7:28                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-22 16:03                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-24 11:38                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-25  5:12                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-25 12:45                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-26 13:16                           ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-27  1:53                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 22:19       ` npostavs
2017-08-20 23:00         ` Paul Eggert

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