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bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#18125: file-precious-flag breaks symlinks |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Dec 2020 14:07:50 +0200 |
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2020 12:40:19 +0100
> Cc: 18125@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > touch foo
> > ln -s foo bar
> > emacs-24.3.92 -Q --eval '(setq file-precious-flag t)' bar
> > change bar and save
> > -> bar is no longer a symlink
> >
> > AFAICS, it has always (since at least 22.3) been like this.
> > Does it have to be, though? Why can't it overwrite the target of the link?
>
> This behaviour is still present in Emacs 28.
>
> > In any case, the doc only mentions breaking hardlinks.
> >
> > Setting find-file-visit-truename non-nil avoids the problem.
>
> I'm not sure whether this is a bug or whether it makes sense. I'm
> leaning towards... bug? Perhaps? Anybody got an opinion here?
IMO, we could provide the alternative behavior as opt-in, conditioned
on a new option. It is not clear to me that everyone will want to
overwrite the target, so an incompatible change here must be an
opt-in.