From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:20:32 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1121766237.891871.53790@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1121772213 5984 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2005 11:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 11:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 19 13:23:32 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuqC0-0001xu-9K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 13:23:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DuqDz-0003aS-6n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:25:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net p6tGQ3bTmlO6Pw6G7g9O8QeCD9sh79KYe+KISPBRvI/WBrGjro User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2//IHcbGCoPbsM2TuvblRpddxMU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:132496 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28010 davin.pearson@gmail.com writes: > I was recently using Emacs under Gnu/Linux where I learnt about > symbolic links and how useful they are. > > These days I am mainly using Emacs under Windows XP so I wondered if > it was possible for Emacs to recognise Windows-style symbolic links > (*.lnk files) FYI, there is something called "junctions" that NTFS supports. It works more or less like symbolic links on GNU/Linux or Unix systems. You need a special command line tool to create them. You can find one such tool here: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html I use it to make a symbolic link from my "emacs-22.xyz..." to a folder with the simpler name "emacs", and it works great.