Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I'd also like to do (also from eshell) is:
>
> (make-symbolic-link "file" "symlink")
>
> But it tells me that "file" is not a Tramp filename. If I do:
>
> (make-symbolic-link "/[sm/user@host]file" "/[sm/user@host]symlink")
>
> ...it creates a symlink with a literal filename of
> "/[sm/user@host]symlink" that points to a non-existent file with the
> literal name of "/[sm/user@host]file".
>
> What I'd like the 'make-symbolic-link' to do is the same as if I had
> run 'ln -s file symlink' on the remote host.
Whee. Just a couple of days ago, I was working on
make-symbolic-link. Are you using the version from Tramp CVS?
Another question is: should both names be interpreted as Tramp names
or should one name be just a string? I think that the first argument
(FILENAME, the target of the symlink) should be considered as a
string, because `ln -s' also does it this way. But Richard agrees
with your interpretation.
Richard says that both arguments of make-symbolic-link should be
considered filenames, and hence treated as such.
I consider an analogy with `ln -s' behavior on other remote files:
NFS. We have Suns booting via NFS. There is a directory
server:/export/root/client which becomes the root (/) directory for
the client. Now if I become root@server and go to the
/export/root/client directory and say `ln -s /some/file/name
symlink', then `ls -l' will show something like
symlink -> /some/file/name
and accessing this symlink on server will open the file
server:/some/file/name. But accessing the symlink on the client will
open a file client:/some/file/name, which is the same as
server:/export/root/client/some/file/name!
What do you think? What do others think?
(I haven't tested it, but the current implementation should allow for
using symlinks as a kind of bookmark feature: in your home dir, you
say `ln -s "/[sm/user@host]/path/to/file" bookmark'. Now you
_should_ be able to say C-x C-f ~/bookmark RET to open the file on
the remote host. But I haven't tested it.)
kai
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