Re: links: what should XEmacs do if two paths lead to the same file?

Monday, 6 November 2000

        palmieri(a)math.washington.edu (John H. Palmieri) writes:

...
 I have a directory '~/.www/Math307/' which is soft-linked to
 '~/classes/307/WEB/'.  If I'm using

   GNU Emacs 20.4.7 (alphaev5-dec-osf4.0f, X toolkit) of Fri Feb 25 2000 on hilbert1

 when I find the files '~/classes/307/WEB/index.html' and
 '~/.www/Math307/index.html', I am told

   ~/classes/307/WEB/index.html and /user1/palmieri/.www/Math307/index.html are the same
file

 and I get only one new buffer called "index.html". 
I assume this is possible by the magic of symlinks?  Have you set
`find-file-compare-truenames' to a non-nil value?

...
 when I find both files, I don't receive any such message, and I
get
 two buffers: "index.html" and "index.html<2>".  If I edit one
of the
 files and then try to edit the other one, I'm asked

   index.html changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h)

 which is good, but a little late, I think. 
It's definitely good, but it was not meant for the kind of situation
you're facing.  :-)

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