On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:32:35 -0500, BandiPat <magicpage91 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> It sounds like it is working fine for your links, unless I'm > misunderstanding your intentions. You're misunderstanding my intentions. Let's say that I have this directory: /home/example/scribus/docs And I also have this directory: /opt/moreexample/scribus/moredocs Now I load this document: /home/example/scribus/docs/mydocument.sla Now I want to load a document from /opt/moreexample/scribus/moredocs. To avoid having to climb the directory tree all the way up and all the way back down (which is a lot of clicking) I can just put a symbolic link into my /home/example/scribus/docs directory, like this: ln -s /opt/moreexample/scribus/moredocs/sample.sla /home/example/scribus/docs/examplelink Now I load sample.sla from the same directory that I loaded my first document from, which works fine. But Now the next time I want to load a document my "load from" directory has changed from /home/example/scribus/docs to /opt/moreexample/scribus/moredocs. Which is not where I want to be. The symbolic link should be honoured as-is, and not "translated" back into the real directory path. In other words, if I load a symbolic link in the current directory, I should remain in the current directory for subsequent operations, not get magically moved to the linked directory. Follow my link to load the file (or directory), but don't move me there completely. I hope this is a better explanation.
