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Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>, 28156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 14:47:02 -0700

Michael Albinus wrote:
> Just to understand what you are speaking about: what do you mean with
> "Tramp quoting"? A file name starting with "/:" has nothing to do with
> Tramp.

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand Tramp at all but I don't think it matters. 
By "Tramp quoting" I was referring to the technique you used in 
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28156#23 to create a symlink whose 
name starts with "~", by prefixing the name with "/:/tmp/". I don't know why the 
"/:" is there and it doesn't really matter, since the bug in question is not 
with the name of the symlink, it is with the contents of the symlink.

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