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

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016, at 22:18, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i'm not suggesting nano works well currently ;).  just providing
> a real world example of where this functionality makes sense.  if
> you don't want to support it, then so be it.

It hasn't worked for twelve years, so the chances that anyone is
actually using this are extremely small.  Also because normally
you /would/ want nano to follow a symlink and not replace it.

However, if I now remove the feature, and someone has 'set nofollow'
in their .nanorc (and 'set quiet' before it), and then they happen
to edit a file through a symlink...  "Wah, it changed the file instead
of replacing the symlink!"

(This 'set quiet' was a bad idea too.  It shouldn't have quieted the
error messages; it should just have removed the requirement for
pressing Enter.)

Benno

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