From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: symlinks and auto-detecting 2-bufs hold *same* ifile-num?
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:23:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4E488B.7050309@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bijujc$srh$1@panix1.panix.com
David Combs wrote:
> I've got lots of symlinks, some being shortcut-ways to
> name certain directories.
>
> Before very long, it turns out that I've managed to end
> up with several (differently-named) buffers that are
> accessing the *same* file (ie, ls -li shows the same
> ifile-num).
>
> Only problem is that *emacs* isn't aware of this -- or
> if it is, it sure hasn't told (warned) me either at
> the creation of the dup-like buffer, nor later.
See the "File Name Aliases" node of the Emacs manual. You
need to set either find-file-existing-other-name or
find-file-visit-truename to t.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-28 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-28 3:57 symlinks and auto-detecting 2-bufs hold *same* ifile-num? David Combs
2003-08-28 18:23 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2003-08-30 2:46 ` David Combs
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