From: Yang <fz15@HPC.MsState.Edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 00:06:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0804020002030.25374@Titan.HPC.MsState.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.9816.1207102163.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Thanks very much for your help. I bookmarked that link and would take a
look later. I also did fair amount of search on google, looks like it is
very difficult for Windows to follow Unix symbolic links (for various
reasons).
I guess at the mean time I'll just stick with the current emacs on vista
and avoid opening any symbolic links on the remote unix machine.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, William Xu wrote:
> Yang <fz15@HPC.MsState.Edu> writes:
>
>> Thanks for sharing the experience. That is a sad news if this is
>> true.
>
> I used to suffer a lot sharing a svn repo containing symbolic links.
>
>> I used to use carbon emacs on a mac and that works fine with UNIX file
>> systems.
>
> Yes, Mac OS X supports symbolic links well.
>
>> I like the looks and fonts of the carbon emacs. Now I also like
>> the emacs looks and font rendering on vista. Is there any patch around
>> to let the windows emacs understand UNIX symbolic links?
>
> It sounds more like a system level problem to me, not specific to emacs.
> I did a google and find this:
>
> http://www.pearlmagik.com/winbolic/
>
> I've not tried it myself, but maybe helpful for you.
>
> --
> William
>
> http://williamxu.net9.org
>
>
>
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 4:01 Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Yang
2008-04-01 15:02 ` William Xu
[not found] ` <mailman.9785.1207062149.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-01 16:54 ` Yang
2008-04-01 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 2:09 ` William Xu
[not found] ` <mailman.9816.1207102163.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 5:06 ` Yang [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 6:33 ` Barry Margolin
2008-04-02 7:50 ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-03 19:45 ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 17:27 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-02 17:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 22:12 ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-03 3:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 18:15 ` Michael Albinus
[not found] ` <mailman.9884.1207157251.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 23:28 ` Jason Rumney
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