Re: Feature Request: make sane symlinks on remote host.

[Kai Großjohann]

Steve Youngs <address@hidden> writes:

> |--==> "KG" == Kai Gro <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   KG> Steve Youngs <address@hidden> writes:
>   >>(make-symbolic-link "/[method/address@hidden/path/to/filename"
>   >>                    "/[method/address@hidden/path/to/symlink-name")
>
>   >>Providing that the Trampish parts of the names get stripped when
>   >>writing it to disc.
>
>   KG> I have changed Tramp such that the above behaves as you want.  So
>   KG> this is the part we agree on.
>
> Fantastic!  And I'd really love to try it but CVS won't let me. :-(
> It tells me...
>
> 'ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/local/libexec/ssh-askpass): No such file or
> directory'

Argh.  I hope it fixes itself...

>   KG> I guess more discussion is still needed for the case where the
>   KG> user/host is not given in both files.
>
> That's easy... both FILENAME and LINKNAME are local. :-)

I meant the case where user/host is given in one file, but not in
both files.  But I think that's not what I said :-(

kai
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