From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mitchell L Model Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:03 GMT Organization: AT&T Broadband Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042691918 28755 80.91.224.249 (16 Jan 2003 04:38:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Z1nY-0007Tf-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:38:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z1oi-0003Oi-00 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:39:48 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z1nx-0002dh-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z1nf-0001kW-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:38:51 -0500 Original-Received: from trinity.ranger.supernews.net ([216.168.1.22] helo=trinity.supernews.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z1nY-0001Lp-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 23:38:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]) by trinity.supernews.net with esmtp (Exim 4.12) id 18Z1nW-000DCQ-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:34 +0000 Original-Received: from ops.asp.att.net (rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net[135.173.99.205]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <2003011604380405100pnuibe>; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:04 +0000 Original-Received: by ops.asp.att.net (8.8.8+Sun/SMI-SVR4) id EAA19605; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:04 GMT Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.60.113.119 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@attbi.com Original-X-Trace: rwcrnsc51.ops.asp.att.net 1042691883 24.60.113.119 (Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:03 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 04:38:03 GMT X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4212 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4212 Symptoms: I edit a file I referred to by a path that was a symbolic link, e.g. ~/TEMP, when ~/TEMP is a symbolic link to ~/STUFF/TEMP. I save the file. ~/TEMP is no longer a symbolic link; it contains the changes I made, but ~/STUFF/TEMP does not. ___________ The real file should be edited and the symbolic link left alone. This happens with the double-clickable Emacs 21 for Mac OS X on Mac OS 10.2.3, but not for /usr/bin/Emacs -nw executed from the terminal, though both claim to be "21.3.50.6 of 2002-11-27 on Bluey.local" and configured --without-x and prefix=/usr.