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bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:40:19 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
> touch foo
> ln -s foo bar
> emacs-24.3.92 -Q --eval '(setq file-precious-flag t)' bar
> change bar and save
> -> bar is no longer a symlink
>
> AFAICS, it has always (since at least 22.3) been like this.
> Does it have to be, though? Why can't it overwrite the target of the link?
This behaviour is still present in Emacs 28.
> In any case, the doc only mentions breaking hardlinks.
>
> Setting find-file-visit-truename non-nil avoids the problem.
I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether it makes sense. I'm
leaning towards... bug? Perhaps? Anybody got an opinion here?
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