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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 17:32:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Scott Evans <gse AT antisleep DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: cygwin-link-mode for emacs
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On 10 Feb 2003, Scott Evans wrote:

> Just found this, posted by Edward O'Connor <oconnor AT soe DOT ucsd DOT edu> on
> gnu.emacs.sources.  It's a nice little hack.  He posted it or NTemacs
> but it works fine in the native XEmacs too. (which I still use because
> it's faster than the Cygwin XEmacs.)
>
> ;;---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (defun cygwin-link-mode ()
>   (goto-char (point-max))
>   (search-backward (string 0))
>   (forward-char 1)
>   (find-alternate-file (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))))
>
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.lnk\\'" . cygwin-link-mode))
>
> (provide 'cygwin-link-mode)
> ;;---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Neat.  Note: this won't work for old-style symlinks.
	Igor
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