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* symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X
@ 2003-01-16  4:38 Mitchell L Model
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From: Mitchell L Model @ 2003-01-16  4:38 UTC (permalink / raw)


Symptoms:

I edit a file I referred to by a path that was a symbolic link, e.g. 
~/TEMP, when ~/TEMP is a symbolic link to ~/STUFF/TEMP.

I save the file.

~/TEMP is no longer a symbolic link; it contains the changes I made, but 
~/STUFF/TEMP does not.

___________

The real file should be edited and the symbolic link left alone.

This happens with the double-clickable Emacs 21 for Mac OS X on Mac OS 
10.2.3, but not for /usr/bin/Emacs -nw executed from the terminal, 
though both claim to be "21.3.50.6 of 2002-11-27 on Bluey.local" and 
configured --without-x and prefix=/usr.

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* Re: symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X
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@ 2003-01-16  5:38 ` Andrew Choi
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From: Andrew Choi @ 2003-01-16  5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)


Mitchell L Model <mlm@acm.org> writes:

> Symptoms:
> 
> I edit a file I referred to by a path that was a symbolic link,
> e.g. ~/TEMP, when ~/TEMP is a symbolic link to ~/STUFF/TEMP.
> 
> I save the file.
> 
> ~/TEMP is no longer a symbolic link; it contains the changes I made,
> but ~/STUFF/TEMP does not.
> 
> ___________
> 
> The real file should be edited and the symbolic link left alone.
> 
> This happens with the double-clickable Emacs 21 for Mac OS X on Mac OS
> 10.2.3, but not for /usr/bin/Emacs -nw executed from the terminal,
> though both claim to be "21.3.50.6 of 2002-11-27 on Bluey.local" and
> configured --without-x and prefix=/usr.

I cannot reproduce this problem.  Symbolic links work fine as expected.
You are aware that symbolic links and (Mac OS) alias files are
different, right?

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* Re: symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X
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@ 2003-01-18 19:46   ` Alexander Pohoyda
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From: Alexander Pohoyda @ 2003-01-18 19:46 UTC (permalink / raw)


Andrew Choi <akochoi_nospam_@shaw.ca> writes:

> > Symptoms:
> > 
> > I edit a file I referred to by a path that was a symbolic link,
> > e.g. ~/TEMP, when ~/TEMP is a symbolic link to ~/STUFF/TEMP.
> > 
> > I save the file.
> > 
> > ~/TEMP is no longer a symbolic link; it contains the changes I made,
> > but ~/STUFF/TEMP does not.
> > 
> > ___________
> > 
> > The real file should be edited and the symbolic link left alone.
> > 
> > This happens with the double-clickable Emacs 21 for Mac OS X on Mac OS
> > 10.2.3, but not for /usr/bin/Emacs -nw executed from the terminal,
> > though both claim to be "21.3.50.6 of 2002-11-27 on Bluey.local" and
> > configured --without-x and prefix=/usr.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this problem.  Symbolic links work fine as expected.
> You are aware that symbolic links and (Mac OS) alias files are
> different, right?

Confirmed. Works OK in Emacs 21.3.50.15.
I had, however, the same bug in Emacs 20.7 long time ago.


-- 
Alexander Pohoyda
<alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net>

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