emacs and symlinks

Robinow, David drobinow@dayton.adroit.com
Tue Mar 20 10:20:00 GMT 2001


> From: Primitive Guy [ mailto:efficacy@my-deja.com ]
> Subject: emacs and symlinks
> I noticed that emacs doesn't follow symlinks set up by 
> cygwin.  I have a symlink in my home directory which points 
> to a windows NT directory off my C: drive.  If I launch emacs 
> from my home directory from bash I cant traverse into the 
> symlink from the emacs buffer. I have to actually go to the 
> C: drive in the emacs buffer and start traversing from the 
> physical directory.
 If your referring to NTemacs, it doesn't follow Windows shortcuts either.
Why would you expect it to follow cygwin links?
 If you mean cygwin Xemacs, it works for me.

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