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From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: "Duy Nguyễn" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: [BUG] Not following symlinks by default
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:44:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALkWK0m6=TfcbvDk4_rm_eMeyKkbAHgjHv8JBwqfqT+TVHzJeg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I've spent many frustrating hours cornering this bug.  Here's a short
testcase to reproduce it:

  #!/bin/sh

  cd /tmp
  rm -rf z b
  mkdir z z/a z/b
  echo ha >z/a/file
  ln -s z/b
  cd b
  cat ../a/file
  emacs -Q ../a/file # buffer-file-name = /tmp/a/file

Why doesn't emacs behave like cat or vim?  Isn't this behavior a bad default?

Thanks.



             reply	other threads:[~2013-07-28  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-28  9:14 Ramkumar Ramachandra [this message]
2013-07-28 12:02 ` [BUG] Not following symlinks by default Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-28 18:42   ` Glenn Morris
2013-07-28 18:50     ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-07-30  0:42       ` Glenn Morris

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