From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: editing files remotely Date: 07 Aug 2003 19:10:05 +0000 Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yq5l1wy.fsf@hervieu.trollope.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1060301418 920 80.91.224.253 (8 Aug 2003 00:10:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 00:10:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 08 02:10:42 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19kuq9-00073R-00 for ; Fri, 08 Aug 2003 02:10:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19kuS4-00034W-Q9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2003 19:45:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!129.250.169.17!pln-w!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-330.newsdawg.com X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:115740 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:11660 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:11660 hello, i'm trying to understand how emacs handles links when editing files remotely. i have some web sites where i typically edit remotely with emacs. many times i just log into the shell directory and then dired into the www directory. this directory is typically a link from the shell home directory to the actual www dir, which may be like this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 tr0921ea tr0921ea 16 May 10 17:41 cgi -> /var/www/cgi-bin now, if i'm on this machine (slackware 9.0), trying to follow that link does not work, emacs treats it like a file. if i go upstairs to my winders machine and do the same thing with ntemacs, it will follow the link to the cgi-bin directory. ??? however, that's not the end of the story. from this machine, i can follow this link: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Sep 22 2002 mainwebsite_cgi -> \ ../../var/www/cgi-bin both machines are on the same network & going out the same dsl connection. but wait, there's more. sometimes, when i edit a file from this machine (but never from the other one), i can't save it. emacs gives a message in the minibuffer about a keyboard macro -- something like, "bell rung at end of keyboard macro" -- and the file is not saved. i can write to the directory; iow, if i save the file to a different name, that will work. but it won't overwrite. any suggestions would be appreciated. thanks. mp -- Michael Powe Naugatuck CT USA ------------------------------------------------------------ "Perl is obviously my attempt to help other people be creative. In my little way, I'm sneakily helping people understand a bit more about the sort of people God likes." -- Larry Wall