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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>, 28156@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 20:28:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y3qexfeo.fsf@detlef> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ad3ce8d9-608b-b382-7591-0777408edc09@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2017 10:54:45 -0700")

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

>> We have quoting for these cases.
>
> Quoting does not work for these cases. If I try to rename a symlink to
> the literal string '~eggert' on my machine, Emacs will misbehave as
> described and there is no way to quote the string naming the symlink
> to fix this.

(make-symbolic-link "~/.emacs" "/:/tmp/~eggert")

# ls -l /tmp
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx  1 albinus albinus     20 Aug 20 20:24 ~eggert -> /home/albinus/.emacs

(rename-file "/:/tmp/~eggert" "/:/tmp/~albinus")

# ls -l /tmp
[...]
lrwxrwxrwx  1 albinus albinus     20 Aug 20 20:24 ~albinus -> /home/albinus/.emacs

Best regards, Michael.





  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-20 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-20 10:28 bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 13:48 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 15:09   ` Philipp Stephani
2017-08-20 15:38     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 17:54       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 18:28         ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-08-20 18:53           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:15             ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 21:47               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  7:36                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-20 19:21             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-20 21:31               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21  2:34                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21  8:34                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 14:25                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 15:58                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 19:16         ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 17:34           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-21 17:59             ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-21 20:30               ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-22  7:28                 ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-22 16:03                   ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-24 11:38                     ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-25  5:12                       ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-25 12:45                         ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-26 13:16                           ` Michael Albinus
2017-08-27  1:53                           ` Paul Eggert
2017-08-20 22:19       ` npostavs
2017-08-20 23:00         ` Paul Eggert

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