From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:33:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207118457 21945 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 06:40:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:40:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 02 08:41:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jgwf2-0002st-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:41:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JgweQ-0006Yg-4a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:40:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:33:44 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b2 (Intel Mac OS X) Original-Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.34.108.171 Original-X-Trace: sv3-Y5N+7eqrnkPfWD4sjqsxrnLzEdjDdaMoLvpKo2Lv/hUXz6IwR2wX9JdCWdTYKw1TNppf5i/7nVW0e/c!hgoP4ZUcDtcwd0P5tHDiTsQCaw7UZLsaqPeBeNuuLXN2csz0T/5LwSoxYYeAmdenHOe84s1j4VH2!2b5YmUzvy4UrqY4oSeWe/48mi4lZ0pVt7IY1n4M= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.38 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157590 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52960 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Yang > > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:54:35 -0500 > > > > Is there any patch around to let the windows emacs understand UNIX > > symbolic links? > > Not that I know of, and neither can I imagine how an Emacs patch could > cure a malady of the operating system: for symlinks to work on > Windows, the Windows filesystem needs to do something sensible with > symlinks, because even if the symlink is on a Unix disk, Emacs > accesses it through Windows file I/O APIs, and those simply don't > support symlinks. Did you forget that he said he's using TRAMP, not the Windows filesystem API? -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***