From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:51:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mztw644c.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: cvdrsh$6ar$1@panix1.panix.com
> "Click" (hit <return>) on it, and you end up with a buffer named
> run-tools.smd (the name of the symlink), the buffer's *contents* being the
> pointed-to file "run-tools--16.29.8.smd".
> Fine and good; nice rms-DWIM, does what I wanted.
This is no rms-DWIM, it's just the way Unix symlinks work.
It's all done in the kernel for you.
This is not to say that Emacs can't do anything about it, of course.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-22 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-21 23:46 modeline should note file gotten-via-symlink David Combs
2005-02-22 0:05 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-02-22 4:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-02-22 14:51 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-02-23 1:45 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.977.1109049635.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-02-23 1:52 ` David Combs
2005-02-24 16:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
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