Re: [Nano-devel] what is --nofollow good for?

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016, at 21:23, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> Someone was complaining about the behavior changing, so I'd added that
> feature.  If it's really been broken that long then by all means, it
> should go.
> 
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Benno Schulenberg
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This hasn't been working for a long time: it didn't work in 2.2.6,
> > not in 2.2.2, not in 2.1.5, not in 2.0.9,  not in 1.0.5, and not
> > in 1.0.1 either.

Eeeww.  I tested wrong -- I ran nano instead of ./nano.  :|

It did work in 1.0.1 and 1.0.5, and probably still a bit later.
But it definitely stopped working in 1.3.1 (January 2004).
I haven't tested further back -- in versions before 2.0.8
src/files.c has to be fixed before it will compile.

So this hasn't been working for at least twelve years.
(And why should it?  If they want the symlink gone, they
can simply delete it beforehand.  Why should nano do the
work for them?)  I will remove -l, --nofollow.

Benno

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