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bug#22828: 25.1.50; Mark symlinks whose target matches regexp
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Tino Calancha |
Subject: |
bug#22828: 25.1.50; Mark symlinks whose target matches regexp |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Feb 2016 15:48:19 +0900 (JST) |
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Alpine 2.20 (LRH 67 2015-01-07) |
I'm not sure whether that's generally useful enough to include in
dired... I can't say that I remember ever wanting something like that.
Sometimes the meaninful part of the symbolic link is in the target.
Let's say you have a lot of files (thousands of them), in different
locations and you create links to them:
t1
t2
...
ti
...
to all those files under the same directory for whatever
processing/editing that you have in mind.
In such case, the only mark which has sense to pick up some
particular files with a regexp is something like the proposed
command in this thread.
And this implementation also seems quite fragile. Will symlinks always
be presented as " -> "? And can " -> " be a valid part of a file name.
Good point. I agree with this.