From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Pohoyda Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X Date: 18 Jan 2003 20:46:36 +0100 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <8765smmear.fsf@oak.pohoyda.family> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042919221 12269 80.91.224.249 (18 Jan 2003 19:47:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:47:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Zyvj-0003Bl-00 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:47:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZyvX-0007qq-01 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZyvQ-0007qd-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZyvO-0007q3-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from ashd1-2.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.246]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ZyvO-0007pm-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 14:46:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by mr1.ash.ops.us.uu.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQnyff10387 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 19:46:36 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:46:36 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 20:46:36 +0100 (MET) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: p508bd140.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 32 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508bd140.dip.t-dialin.net (80.139.209.64) X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1042919195 24439799 80.139.209.64 (16 [146643]) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4249 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4249 Andrew Choi writes: > > Symptoms: > > > > I edit a file I referred to by a path that was a symbolic link, > > e.g. ~/TEMP, when ~/TEMP is a symbolic link to ~/STUFF/TEMP. > > > > I save the file. > > > > ~/TEMP is no longer a symbolic link; it contains the changes I made, > > but ~/STUFF/TEMP does not. > > > > ___________ > > > > The real file should be edited and the symbolic link left alone. > > > > This happens with the double-clickable Emacs 21 for Mac OS X on Mac OS > > 10.2.3, but not for /usr/bin/Emacs -nw executed from the terminal, > > though both claim to be "21.3.50.6 of 2002-11-27 on Bluey.local" and > > configured --without-x and prefix=/usr. > > I cannot reproduce this problem. Symbolic links work fine as expected. > You are aware that symbolic links and (Mac OS) alias files are > different, right? Confirmed. Works OK in Emacs 21.3.50.15. I had, however, the same bug in Emacs 20.7 long time ago. -- Alexander Pohoyda