Re: ange-ftp appears to have trouble with symbolic links to directories

[Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>]

I seem to remember doing something about a similar problem.
Is there some way you could check if the Emacs CVS code fixes it ?

Wait, I think the patch below was the meat of it, can you try it ?


        Stefan


--- net/ange-ftp.el     2 Jul 2002 19:20:42 -0000       1.37
+++ net/ange-ftp.el     4 Jul 2002 20:37:14 -0000       1.38
@@ -4517,7 +4518,8 @@
        (if (and (not wildcard)
                 (setq tem (file-symlink-p (directory-file-name file))))
            (ange-ftp-insert-directory
-            (ange-ftp-replace-name-component file tem)
+            (ange-ftp-expand-symlink
+             tem (file-name-directory (directory-file-name file)))
             switches wildcard full)
          (insert
           (if wildcard