From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fabrice Popineau Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs and Windows junctions Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:55:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <83ioey475p.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a11359c709e5037050f6d1a93 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1424336178 21859 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2015 08:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 08:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs developers To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 19 09:56:18 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YOMu9-0007Fz-OF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:56:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55370 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOMu4-0007MI-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:56:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53435) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOMtr-0007Ly-06 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:55:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOMtq-00048L-3F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:55:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qg0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22e]:56225) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YOMto-000489-TL; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:55:56 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-qg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id z107so5210827qgd.5; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:55:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=S63bKeW5KRpm9jMwHvzeIjMmK1PTL1CGUkBVs2/Nx5o=; b=xr0rPFQ4lYZgT1zxVhpaA1uKwrVOKbG9pJsegdQc5vya33yDAd+G3HwhwBrG5dULK4 ki4rwuBVDJzKJwlcRsvEEKGkSjeOaGmqBc8rGiC4CBbuZT91NLRf2467VPj7Kg1jk+zF HpbOS9Be1nMejIjeV75JHIuOTvd+uGc1PIydZEQ02bX/1eV+jPEok2dgBinPwmnKaUVv ASreDFdvPbOMZtCs/l/QeqtBli2afaSorPl+iQGmJMjPIVQU/ERkguK5QOO+ygUmLhMI c+72NKp943RJczlS18quXVZ18CJ/hAur6Aod5gLdMXu25GVSuZmG0/ov3JkyO77jI0F6 Hatg== X-Received: by 10.140.237.6 with SMTP id i6mr10393565qhc.32.1424336155985; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:55:55 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.140.32.7 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:55:35 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83ioey475p.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:183285 Archived-At: --001a11359c709e5037050f6d1a93 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 2015-02-19 9:50 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii : > > That said, I'm not sure I see any important use cases for adding this > functionality, so perhaps I'm missing something. > At the moment, dired doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere. I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is actually a junction. It seemed to me that getting this information wasn't very different from what is done for symlinks. Maybe I should have started by saying that. OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired. Fabrice --001a11359c709e5037050f6d1a93 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


2015-02-19 9:50 GMT+01:00 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
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That said, I'm not sure I see any important use cases for adding this functionality, so perhaps I'm missing something.

At the moment, dire= d doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere.
I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is ac= tually a junction.
It seemed to me that get= ting this information wasn't very different from what is=C2=A0
done for symlinks.
= Maybe I should have started by saying that.
OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired.=

Fabri= ce
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