Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support

[Jason Rumney]

eliz@is.elta.co.il (Eli Zaretskii) writes:

> The shortcuts do indeed end in `.lnk', but the crucial detail you are
> missing is that they are not _referenced_ with that extension
> explicitly mentioned.

This is a "feature" of Explorer and the Windows File Dialogs. Emacs
still sees the .lnk extension. 

> So I think any of the Emacs mechanisms which are based on file-name
> patterns will not be able to handle this.

-- 
Jason Rumney