Questions tagged [symbolic-links]
Following or manipulating symbolic links in the underlying file system.
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Eshell cannot execute filesystem objects that are NTFS reparse points on Windows
None of the executables inside C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps can be run from the command line under eshell.
The error I receive when trying to run any of these executables looks like:...
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How to make a symbolic link pointing to a directory?
I'm trying to make a symbolic link to a directory, but the resulting link is always broken. For example,
(make-symbolic-link user-emacs-directory "test" t)
The first argument is TARGET, ...
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Follow symbolic links in alternative org-roam directory
I use org-roam to take notes. I have two org-roam directories. The alternative one has a .dir-locals.el file where I set the value of org-roam-directory and org-roam-db-location with the path to the ...
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prevent symbolic link follow from git repo HOWTO
I have git repo here: ~/git/myrepo/
then I do:
ln -s ~/external_dir ~/git/myrepo
emacs follows symbolic link when opening the file: ~/git/myrepo/external_dir/somefile.txt
I'd like to prevent it, ...
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How to show current directory in Dired with symlinks resolved
I have ~/bin -> ~/some/long/path/bin. When I open ~/bin in Dired, it tells me at the top that it is looking at /Users/username/bin, i.e. it expands '~' in the current directory printed on the ...
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Emacs completion through symlink (OSX)
I have a symlink on my Desktop that points to my Dropbox folder. Clicking on this link takes me through to Dropbox, which is located elsewhere. But if I try navigating to ~/Desktop/Dropbox using Emacs,...
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Can Dired (or Dired+) detect symlinks in Windows?
Can Dired(+) be made to show symlinks in Windows?
A picture is worth a thousand words:
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Is there a way to highlight symlinks in the speedbar?
I would like files in the speedbar that are symlinks, to be highlighted, or at least marked with @ so that they are easily distinguishable.
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Treat symbolic-link as separate files while visiting
Is there a way to make Emacs visit already visited file(with active buffer) via symbolic-link as a different file?
I want them(links/file paths) to be visited by different buffers.
It will be best if ...
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Follow symlinked directories in Dired
On a Linux machine I symlink some directories into my home directory like this:
/home/mrdarcy:
total used in directory 231 available 520120
drwxrwxr-x 3 4k 04-30 18:16 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 4k ...
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What are the '.#' links for? [duplicate]
When an Emacs buffer is modified, a broken link is created.
The link's name is a concatenation of '.#' followed by the file's name.
For example:
$ ls .#spacemacs_ref.org -l
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 wolfv wolfv ...
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.emacs linked to emacs.link,open emacs.link in emacs-lisp mode
Say I have a symbolic link .emacs link to emacs.link,so when I open emacs.link,the associated buffer's major mode is Fundamental mode.
I want emacs.link's major mode Emacs-Lisp.
Another example is: ...
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Hide symlink destination in ls-lisp output?
By default Emacs' ls-lisp shows the symlink destination in its output like this:
/tmp:
total used in directory 2 available 12933091
lrwxr-xr-x 40 02-07 16:12 foo -> bar
-rw-r--r-- 0 03-06 14:45 ...
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Mac OS X problem accessing file via symlink
GNU Emacs 24 on El Capitan. When opening a file whose path includes a directory which is a symlink, Emacs emits the following error:
*ERROR*: Wrong type argument: numberp, "Bus error: 10"
If I ...
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Hard and soft links (junctions) under Windows
Let us assume to run the following commands creating links in the Windows prompt (terminal):
> mkdir fooDir
> echo hello> fooDir\foo
> mklink /d fooDirSym fooDir
> mklink /j fooDirJunc ...
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How to make vc-* and magit treat a symbolic link to a real file in git repo just like the original file?
Say, I got ~/.emacs which is a soft link to ~/.emacs.d/init.el(using ln -s ~/.emacs.d/init.el ~/.emacs) which is in a git repo, because this will make it easier to reach init.el, outside or inside ...
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Stop dired opening second window of already open directory
When I open a directory using dired and there is already the same directory opened in dired, a second one is opened with <2>. How can I inhibit this creation of the duplicate window and switch ...
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