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Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support
From: |
David Masterson |
Subject: |
Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support |
Date: |
10 Oct 2001 13:05:27 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> Jari Aalto+mail emacs writes:
> In Windows, it is possible to create shortcuts that refer to the
> original files.
But there's much more in a shortcut than there is in a symbolic link.
> The cygwin development team already uses windows shortcuts as
> substitute for native Unix symlinks.
Really? I thought they used their own mechanism to simulate symbolic
links on Windows. A Cygwin symlink file (created by "ln -s") even has
a magic number ("!<symlink>" IIRC) which is not Microsoft's style.
> But if I try to load the same file with Emacs 20.7, the link file
> (.mailcap.lnk) itself is loaded and displayed in binary format. The
> binary format is easily parseable and support in 21.x could be
> easily provided at C-level.
Do you know what the format is? Or which MFC call is used to
determine that the file is a shortcut and read the referred to file?
Actually, if it can be parsed and because there is much more in a
shortcut than just a pointer to a file (type, location, where to
start, how to run, shortcut key, etc.), I think it would be better if
Emacs had a shortcut-mode which would parse the binary, display the
results in text, and allow (careful) editing of the information.
--
David Masterson dmaster AT synopsys DOT com
Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.
Software Engineering Sunnyvale, CA
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, (continued)
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, David Masterson, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Stefan Monnier, 2001/10/11
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Richard Stallman, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/13
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Raymond Zeitler, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/10/12
- Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support, Jason Rumney, 2001/10/13
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