From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:57:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207116523 17003 80.91.229.12 (2 Apr 2008 06:08:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 06:08:43 +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 08:09:15 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 1Jgw9q-0003YY-Mk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:09:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgw9E-0004BD-IJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:08:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgw7t-0003aM-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:07:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgw7q-0003Y0-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:07:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgw7q-0003Xl-CY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgw7o-0002oD-Nc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from romy.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.24]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jglg4-0007mx-Ny for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:57:49 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-21-134.inter.net.il [80.230.21.134]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id KQT55365 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 1 Apr 2008 21:57:44 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: (message from Yang on Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:54:35 -0500) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:52954 Archived-At: > 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. It is true that Vista introduced some kind of native symlinks, but from what I hear, their semantics is quite different from Posix symlinks, and in any case, the OS layer that mounts the Unix volume should map Unix symlinks to Vista symlinks before Emacs could make use of them. > I know there used to be a package for emacs to understand windows > file shortcuts. Windows shortcuts are native Windows feature, which is different.