From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:02:12 +0900 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207062209 7236 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2008 15:03:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:03:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 01 17:03:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jgi1E-0000KA-JU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:03:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgi0c-0008SG-Me for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgi0K-0008QF-EK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgi0I-0008N8-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgi0I-0008Mu-PS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jgi0I-0003Du-8l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:02:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jgi0E-0007Rx-3a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:02:22 +0000 Original-Received: from kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp ([125.52.252.76]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:02:22 +0000 Original-Received: from william.xwl by kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:02:22 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: kd125052252076.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oLvrgQHgi8MMMpXDbcrMdl8Iz3g= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52943 Archived-At: Yang writes: > Anyone know what was going on and how to fix this? I've never used Windows Vista, so the following is my experience on Windows XP, which probably also applies to Windows Vista. On Windows XP, if you try to access some shared files/directories from a *nix machine, since Windows XP doesn't understand *nix symbolic links, all symbolic links will simply become a copy of the original file, nothing more. My advice is: never edit *nix symbolic links on Windows XP. -- William http://williamxu.net9.org