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Emacs quietly munges symlink contents

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Message #53 received at 28156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>,
 28156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28156: Emacs quietly munges symlink contents
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2017 09:36:50 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

Hi Paul,

> 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 ...

See the lower part of (info "(elisp) File Name Expansion")

Best regards, Michael.

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