Re: Recognising Symbolic Links under Windows XP

[LENNART BORGMAN]

From: davin.pearson@gmail.com

> To Richard Stallman and others...
> 
> I have been using Emacs for years and in my opinion it is 
> something of
> a religion!
> 
> I was recently using Emacs under Gnu/Linux where I learnt about
> symbolic links and how useful they are.
> 
> These days I am mainly using Emacs under Windows XP so I wondered if
> it was possible for Emacs to recognise Windows-style symbolic links
> (*.lnk files)
> 
> The Cygwin shell and the Windows Explorer recognises *.lnk files 
> so I
> thought it would be a good thing if Emacs could be made to recognise
> *.lnk files.


Did you see WThirtyTwoSymlinks on EmacsWiki:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/WThirtyTwoSymlinks

There also a discussion about symlinks here:

  http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2003-08/thread00550-0.html