From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#13747: Bug: Error when viewing symbolically linked file in Windows 7 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:15:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83wqu5pjy2.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361211367 17589 80.91.229.3 (18 Feb 2013 18:16:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 13747@debbugs.gnu.org To: Gustav =?UTF-8?Q?Wikstr=C3=B6m?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 18 19:16:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U7VGO-0005ZY-64 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 13747) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Feb 2013 18:16:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35005 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U7VGQ-0000y0-EJ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:16:30 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:58686) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U7VGN-0000xs-LG for 13747@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:16:29 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MIF00D00H7YC000@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for 13747@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:15:25 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MIF00DJ6HDP07A0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Mon, 18 Feb 2013 20:15:25 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:71484 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:42:47 +0100 > From: Gustav Wikstr=F6m >=20 > Description: > When viewing files in windows 7 that are symbolically linked the bu= ffer > cuts the file at 2^16 bytes of information. >=20 > To reproduce: > - Create or find a text-file that has content of more than 65536 by= tes of > data. > - Link that file to a different place in your filesystem >=20 > > set dest_folder=3D%HOMEPATH%\temp1\ > > set src_folder=3D%HOMEPATH%\temp2\ > > MKLINK "%dest_folder%\init.org" "%src_folder%\.emacs.d\= init.org" >=20 > - Open the linked file in emacs. > - Go to the last point in the buffer containing the file. > - Observe the position of POINT (M-x =3D ) > - Do the same with the original file and observe the position of PO= INT at > the end of buffer. >=20 > Obtained result: > The position of point in the linked buffer is 65536 while the point= is > higher when opening the non-linked file. >=20 > I.e. the whole file is not visible in the buffer for the linked fil= e >=20 > Expected result: > The position of point is the same in both buffers. >=20 > Environmental parameters: > - GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2012-08-29 on MARVIN > - Windows 7 32bits & 64bits Emacs 24.2 did not support symlinks on MS-Windows. Please try the latest pretest of Emacs 24.3, it should have this problem fixed (and supports more features related to symlinks).