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new FAQ entry for GNU Emacs


On Thursday 21 Mar 02, Markus Hoenicka writes:
> Hi,
> 
> While you're at it, you might consider mentioning the following Emacs
> Lisp hack in the FAQ. This allows GNU Emacs to follow Cygwin
> symlinks. This hack is based on a version covering only the !<symlink>
> style symlinks that was posted by someone else to the list years ago,
> but I think I never posted this extended version which also covers the
> .lnk style symlinks. While it appears to work for me, I'd appreciate
> some testing by other GNU Emacs/Cygwin users.
> 
> ;; follow cygwin symlinks. Handles old-style (text file) symlinks and new-style
> ;; (.lnk file) symlinks
> ...

I can add a pointer to this message in the archives.

Maybe the best place for this is in Klaus' cygwin-mount.el?

David


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