emacs and symlinks

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Tue Mar 20 10:14:00 GMT 2001


At 12:36 PM 3/20/2001, Primitive Guy wrote:
>I noticed that emacs doesn't follow symlinks set up by cygwin.  I have a symlink in my home directory which points to a windows NT directory off my C: drive.  If I launch emacs from my home directory from bash I cant traverse into the symlink from the emacs buffer. I have to actually go to the C: drive in the emacs buffer and start traversing from the physical directory.



I'll bet real money that you don't have a Cygwin-aware version of Emacs...

You may want to check out the FAQ and user guides for background on the
basics of Cygwin and its facilities.





Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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