XEmacs 21.5 and hard links

Didier Verna writes: AFAIK this isn't a problem. If you want b to always have the same content as a, you need to use a symlink. Emacsen can swing both ways. See, for example http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-July/020271.html where link-breaking is desirable on all writes, not just when backing up. The change in a behavior is a little unsettling, but probably it's some combination of the change in the default for backups (on vs. off), and in the default method for making backups. One is "cp a a~; write a", the other is "write tmp; cp a a~; mv tmp a" or something like that. The former preserves the relationship between a and b, the latter is atomic (assuming proper handling of the temp file). If XEmacs can't do it either way depending on your settings, *that* is definitely a problem. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta