Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Masterson <dmaster@synopsys.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 15 Oct 2001 09:31:32 -0700
> 
> With respect to opening a shortcut, does Emacs keep any side-lists of
> information about the files that it opens?  Could Emacs resolve the
> shortcut and stuff the above information into such a "side-list"?

Emacs doesn't track the files at all, it only tracks buffers.  When
Emacs visits a file, it opens the file, read its contents into a
buffer, then immediately closes the file and forgets about it.  Only
the file's name and some other information (e.g., time it was visited)
is kept as part of the buffer object.