From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:19:33 -0400 Message-ID: <87mv6tanm2.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> References: <68b2e6ef-bf0b-ebcf-c577-d296952d593f@cs.ucla.edu> <83pobqcnlf.fsf@gnu.org> <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503267569 28451 195.159.176.226 (20 Aug 2017 22:19:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 22:19:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Philipp Stephani , eggert@cs.ucla.edu, michael.albinus@gmx.de, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 21 00:19:21 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1djYYp-0006Hf-EF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from zony ([45.2.119.49]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 79sm3249967itu.31.2017.08.20.15.17.55 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Sun, 20 Aug 2017 15:17:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83h8x2ckqn.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 18:38:40 +0300") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:135969 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Callers of `make-symbolic-link' will need to expand the target themselves. > > make-symbolic-link is an interactive command, not just a function. Can we not just do the expansion in the interactive form then?