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Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link? |
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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:33:44 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.9824.1207116435.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > 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.
Did you forget that he said he's using TRAMP, not the Windows filesystem
API?
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Yang, 2008/04/01
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, William Xu, 2008/04/01
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- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Yang, 2008/04/01
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/02
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- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Michael Albinus, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Michael Albinus, 2008/04/03
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Peter Dyballa, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Peter Dyballa, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/04/02
- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Michael Albinus, 2008/04/02
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- Re: Windows Emacs doesn't understand UNIX symbolic link?, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/02