From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:58 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87mztw644c.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109084919 25773 80.91.229.2 (22 Feb 2005 15:08:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 15:08:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 22 16:08:39 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3bdx-0000I7-MP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 16:08:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D3bv7-0002mm-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:25:53 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E6ULowBYpYpsZK1Mv3Sji6QDA3w= Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.68.218.40 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1109083918 67.68.218.40 (Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:58 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:58 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128712 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24250 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24250 > "Click" (hit ) on it, and you end up with a buffer named > run-tools.smd (the name of the symlink), the buffer's *contents* being the > pointed-to file "run-tools--16.29.8.smd". > Fine and good; nice rms-DWIM, does what I wanted. This is no rms-DWIM, it's just the way Unix symlinks work. It's all done in the kernel for you. This is not to say that Emacs can't do anything about it, of course. Stefan