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

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.04.2008 um 19:54 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Why should that make a difference? Although TRAMP sees on the remote
> > UNIX host a sym-link it can present to MS Losedos nothing but some
> > kind of file.
>
> And what does Tramp present to Emacs on a Unix system? isn't that
> ``some kind of file'' as well?


A file with the character of a sym-link – and UNIX can handle that.  
On a system that can't distinguish a file from a sym-link it will ask  
to save the file's original contents it has read via the sym-link as  
<sym-link>~ and will then ask to save the changed contents under the  
name of <sym-link>. A system able to handle sym-links won't send such  
requests to TRAMP, so TRAMP won't do the nonsense described.

--
Greetings

  Pete

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
                                - Sigmund Freud