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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 00:12:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C0D22BC3-C50D-47DF-BA36-4C535F77DD06@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <usky4kurn.fsf@gnu.org>


Am 02.04.2008 um 19:54 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> Why should that make a difference? Although TRAMP sees on the remote
>> UNIX host a sym-link it can present to MS Losedos nothing but some
>> kind of file.
>
> And what does Tramp present to Emacs on a Unix system? isn't that
> ``some kind of file'' as well?


A file with the character of a sym-link – and UNIX can handle that.  
On a system that can't distinguish a file from a sym-link it will ask  
to save the file's original contents it has read via the sym-link as  
<sym-link>~ and will then ask to save the changed contents under the  
name of <sym-link>. A system able to handle sym-links won't send such  
requests to TRAMP, so TRAMP won't do the nonsense described.

--
Greetings

   Pete

 From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
				- Sigmund Freud







  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-01  4:01 Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Yang
2008-04-01 15:02 ` William Xu
     [not found] ` <mailman.9785.1207062149.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-01 16:54   ` Yang
2008-04-01 18:57     ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02  2:09     ` William Xu
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9816.1207102163.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02  5:06       ` Yang
     [not found]     ` <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02  6:33       ` Barry Margolin
2008-04-02  7:50         ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-03 19:45             ` Michael Albinus
2008-04-02 17:09         ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 17:27           ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-02 17:54             ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 22:12               ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2008-04-03  3:12                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-04-02 18:15             ` Michael Albinus
     [not found]           ` <mailman.9884.1207157251.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-02 23:28             ` Jason Rumney

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