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Re: w32-symlinks for NT Emacs 21
- From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F dot J dot Wright at qmul dot ac dot uk>
- To: "egor duda" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: "Help Emacs Windows" <help-emacs-windows at gnu dot org>, <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:00:12 +0100
- Subject: Re: w32-symlinks for NT Emacs 21
- Organization: Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London
- References: <00b201c22750$a4f08bd0$3a50258a@maths.qmul.ac.uk> <96172723873.20020709182028@logos-m.ru>
From: "egor duda" <deo@logos-m.ru>
To: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk>
Cc: "Help Emacs Windows" <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: w32-symlinks for NT Emacs 21
> Don't change cygwin symlinks with anything other than cygwin tools!
> Changing cygwin symlinks manually is error-prone and can lead to hard
> to diagnose errors!
w32-symlinks never changes existing symlinks. And the only situation in
which it creates an (old style) symlink file is as a backup when an ln
program is not available.
> To reiterate. The only proper way to handle cygwin's symlinks is via
> cygwin tools or api. Doing otherwise is looking for hard-to-find
> errors.
Yes. But I don't think that will be possible to do cleanly within dired in
NT Emacs until NT Emacs can be compiled as a Cygwin application (i.e. not
using mingw), and as far as I am aware that is still not possible. In the
meantime, I will try to improve the ELisp support for using Cygwin ln and ls
from within dired. (ln is there now; ls needs a little more work, since I
was originally targeting ls-lisp.)
Francis
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