Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yang <fz15@HPC.MsState.Edu>
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 11:54:35 -0500
> 
> Is there any patch around to let the windows emacs understand UNIX
> symbolic links?

Not that I know of, and neither can I imagine how an Emacs patch could
cure a malady of the operating system: for symlinks to work on
Windows, the Windows filesystem needs to do something sensible with
symlinks, because even if the symlink is on a Unix disk, Emacs
accesses it through Windows file I/O APIs, and those simply don't
support symlinks.

It is true that Vista introduced some kind of native symlinks, but
from what I hear, their semantics is quite different from Posix
symlinks, and in any case, the OS layer that mounts the Unix volume
should map Unix symlinks to Vista symlinks before Emacs could make use
of them.

> I know there used to be a package for emacs to understand windows
> file shortcuts.

Windows shortcuts are native Windows feature, which is different.