From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: thibault@gmvhdl.com (Scott Thibault) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: NTemacs doesn't understand RCS Date: 4 Nov 2004 08:19:34 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <921d670a.0411040819.4a3a5f5d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099585369 14084 80.91.229.6 (4 Nov 2004 16:22:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:22:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 04 17:22:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CPkNo-0004pv-00 for ; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:22:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CPkVx-0000p5-Ge for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:31:09 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.82.9.53 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1099585174 10101 127.0.0.1 (4 Nov 2004 16:19:34 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126344 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21731 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21731 Hi, I'm using a version of RCS that allows you to create a text file called RCS that contains a pointer to the RCS directory rather than a real directory - a work around for not having links on Windows. So, the question is how do I get emacs to understand these link files? Out-of-the-box, when I try C-x v v, the ci command fails with the message \src\RCS\file.c,v already exists. I assume because emacs doesn't recognize the RCS "link" and tries to do a ci -i. Any ideas?? --Scott