From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:40:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8tjnbin.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87pmjxoev5.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87k0a199t2.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5250"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:ISAISMaUEEEF2S46t4OymErtafw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 02:43:46 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nwYwD-00017m-EU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:43:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54472 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwYwB-0007xL-TY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:43:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35860) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwYt3-0005rr-4G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:40:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nwYt0-0006sA-Tb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2022 20:40:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nwYsx-0007fo-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2022 02:40:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137478 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: >>> Symlinks greatly help in that case, and do spare the hard >>> disk space. >> >> Compared to duplicating all the files physically on the >> local machine? > > Yes, symlinks can be in a different file structure than > their actual files on the hard disk. > > For example [...] This is the same use case that has been mentioned several times by now! Maybe that's the only things symlinks are good for? -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal