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Re: Emacs and Windows junctions
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs and Windows junctions |
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Thu, 19 Feb 2015 11:06:01 +0200 |
> From: Fabrice Popineau <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:55:35 +0100
> Cc: Emacs developers <address@hidden>
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> At the moment, dired doesn't display them as pointing to somewhere.
We don't do that for hard links, either.
> I thought that it would be nice to know that some directory is actually a
> junction.
> It seemed to me that getting this information wasn't very different from
> what is done for symlinks.
You are talking about their implementation in the filesystem. But
that's not what matters from the Emacs user's POV. What matters is
the behavior.
> OTOH, the user might also want to be able to fully handle them from dired.
We can only support features that more-or-less fit into the Posix
notions of files and filesystems.