From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu,
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link?
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 11:39:37 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206281739.g5SHdbA04130@santafe.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200206261357.g5QDv0X11882@rum.cs.yale.edu> (monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu)
I don't like the rewriting, but I can live with it. OTOH, raising an
error just because Emacs thinks the operation doesn't make any sense
would just be wrong. Especially since it's not trivial for elisp code
to transform "/destina/tion" into "/sameuser@samehost:/destina/tion".
What is your complete proposal?
Even Emacs uses symlink targets as non-files, for lock files.
Yes it does, and it never tries to open those.
This happens to work, but is not what symlinks are for.
The main purpose of symlinks is to refer to another file.
That is what defines their meaning.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-28 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-23 19:51 Tramp: how to handle make-symbolic-link? Kai Großjohann
2002-06-23 20:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-24 15:48 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-23 20:22 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-24 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-24 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-25 23:32 ` Richard Stallman
2002-06-26 13:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-06-28 17:39 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-06-26 14:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-08 18:20 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-10 13:25 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-07-11 12:00 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-11 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-12 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2002-07-12 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-07-11 20:28 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-06-26 15:15 ` Andreas Schwab
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