From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs and Windows junctions
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:06:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fva246fa.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgFV9NwBt3D5T0eyaE6Ug3wdYkFKN8xVaQRExEp44DYrr0gRg@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:55:35 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> At the moment, dired doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere.
We don't do that for hard links, either.
> I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is actually a
> junction.
> It seemed to me that getting this information wasn't very different from
> what is done for symlinks.
You are talking about their implementation in the filesystem. But
that's not what matters from the Emacs user's POV. What matters is
the behavior.
> OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired.
We can only support features that more-or-less fit into the Posix
notions of files and filesystems.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-18 14:09 Emacs and Windows junctions Fabrice Popineau
2015-02-19 8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-19 8:55 ` Fabrice Popineau
2015-02-19 9:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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