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RE: new-style Cygwin symlinks, NTEmacs' dired mode, and ls-lisp.el
- From: "Matt Swift" <swift at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:10:04 -0400
- Subject: RE: new-style Cygwin symlinks, NTEmacs' dired mode, and ls-lisp.el
To answer a couple of the respondents to my post:
Indeed setting the insert-program to "ls" works, yet it is significantly
slower than the code I posted.
With the code I posted, I find I can follow MS-generated and
Cygwin-generated symlinks in dired.
I can also use the S and Y commands to create new symlinks in dired. I
get an Emacs error when I do the command, but the symlink is in fact
created and can be viewed normally by refreshing ("g"). I haven't tried
to fix this yet; I think it is easy.
One cannot make symlinks to symlinks, however; you get a second symlink
to the target.
The code in ls-lisp.el v 1.22 fails to recognize a few MS shortcuts. I
have not figured a reasonable way to include the shortcut file in an
email.
The following is an improvement on the code I posted; this
save-excursion should replace the earlier one. It's still
reverse-engineered rather than based confidently on specs.
(save-excursion
(let* ((delimiter (buffer-substring 77 79))
(delimiter2 (progn
(forward-char 78)
(search-forward
delimiter)))
(comment (buffer-substring 79 (-
delimiter2 2)))
;;; (target (buffer-substring delimiter2
(point-max)))
)
;;; (message "MSS | delimiter: %s" delimiter)
;;; (message "MSS | delimiter2: %s" delimiter2)
;; (message "MSS | comment: %s" comment)
;; (message "MSS | target: %s" target)
comment))
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