From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stephen Eglen <stephen@gnu.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <thorn@fastmail.fm>, 4050@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4050: 23.1.50; iswitchb virtual buffers don't play well with symlinks
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:23:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iqfmmw60.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
Hi Stephen,
Could you take a look at this bug report? Thanks.
Tassilo Horn <thorn@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> I use iswitchb and the virtual buffer feature
> (iswitchb-use-virtual-buffers set to t). It's a great feature, but it
> doesn't play well with symlinks.
> I keep all my config files in a git repository. For example, my
> ~/.emacs is a symlink to ~/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el. Now I fire up
> iswithb and type ".emacs". There's no such buffer, so it shows the
> virtual buffer ".emacs" and I hit RET.
> Now I'm queried:
> Symbolic link to Git-controlled source file; follow link? (y or n)
> That's ok, and I say yes. The echo area says:
> Followed link to /home/horn/repos/configs/dot-emacs.el
> Also, the file is opened, and a buffer dot-emacs.el exists now. But
> then I get another query:
> No buffer matching `.emacs', create one? (y or n)
> When I say yes, an empty .emacs buffer is created. When I say no, no
> new buffer is created, but I stay in the buffer I invoked iswitchb
> from. The dot-emacs.el buffer is open, but not switched to.
next reply other threads:[~2009-09-13 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-13 20:23 Chong Yidong [this message]
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2009-09-15 11:00 bug#4050: 23.1.50; iswitchb virtual buffers don't play well with symlinks Stephen Eglen
2009-09-15 11:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2009-09-15 11:43 ` Stephen Eglen
2009-08-05 19:11 Tassilo Horn
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