From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Choi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: symbolic links overwritten in Emacs 21 for Mac OS X Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:38:27 +0000 (GMT) Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042695562 5022 80.91.224.249 (16 Jan 2003 05:39:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 05:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Z2kK-0001Iq-00 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 06:39:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z2kH-0006F0-07 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:39:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z2k4-00060f-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:39:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z2jy-0005sM-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailbox2.ucsd.edu ([132.239.1.54]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Z2jd-0005cg-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu; Thu, 16 Jan 2003 00:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mailbox2.ucsd.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0G5cTRh040935 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 21:38:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Received: from pd2mr4so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr4so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.107])2002))gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:28 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from pd2pm1so (pd2pm1so-qfe2.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.122.154]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 HotFix 0.8 (built May 12 2002)) with ESMTP id <0H8S005LXL0448@l-daemon> for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:28 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from shaw.ca ([10.0.123.41]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.0 Patch 2 (built Dec 14 2000)) with ESMTP id <0H8S00AK0L04WL@l-daemon> for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:28 -0700 (MST) Original-X-Trace: news1.calgary.shaw.ca 1042695507 24.71.223.147 (Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:27 MST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-X-Complaints-to: abuse@shaw.ca Original-NNTP-posting-date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 22:38:27 MST User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.144.207.94 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-posting-host: 24.71.223.147 X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.7 40079 h0G5cTRh040935 mailbox2.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4213 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4213 Mitchell L Model 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?