[Nano-devel] what is --nofollow good for?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi,

Today I've tried using --nofollow.  The man page says for this
option: "If the file being edited is a symbolic link, replace
the link with a new file instead of following it."

But trying it shows something different:

$ ln -s foooo baaar
$ nano --nofollow baaar

Then type: ^O  <Enter>

  [ Cannot prepend or append to a symlink with --nofollow set ]

Prepend?  Append?  I just wanted to write out a blank file.

This hasn't been working for a long time: it didn't work in 2.2.6,
not in 2.2.2, not in 2.1.5, not in 2.0.9,  not in 1.0.5, and not
in 1.0.1 either.

So... this basically never worked.  No one can be using this,
nor is anyone apparently needing it.  Okay to remove?


(in the old Changelog it says that the option was introduced
in April 2000 to allow reenabling old but incorrect behavior.)

Benno

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