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bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading messa
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#4398: 23.1.50; Reading dangling symbolic link gives misleading message |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2011 01:26:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Ulrich Neumerkel <ulrich@complang.tuwien.ac.at> writes:
> Create a symbolic link to a nonexistent file.
> M-! ln -s /nowhere/thatfile /tmp
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> Try to find-file dangling link:
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> C-x C-f /tmp/thatfile
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> Now I get a request for confirmation [Confirm]
> After confirming, I get as message
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> File exists, but cannot be read
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> Expected: A more specific message like: "dangling link".
I've now fixed this in Emacs 24.
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