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

[Chris Allegretta]

Someone was complaining about the behavior changing, so I'd added that
feature.  If it's really been broken that long then by all means, it
should go.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Benno Schulenberg
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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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