[lazarus] New Bug Entered

[Michael.VanCanneyt at Wisa.be]

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On 28 Mar 2003 19:58:32 -0600
> Tony Maro <tony at maro.net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 18:08, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> > >
> > > Every editor handles symlinks differently.
> > > I would suggest a message, when the IDE detects an already opened link,
> > > but others seems to prefer more automatic ways. Ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > > Mattias
> >
> > Well, in the fileutil.pp unit (isn't that what it was?) didn't I notice
> > some routines that would extract out symlinks back to the real full
> > path?
>
> filectrl.pp.
> Just to avoid misunderstandings: I just wanted to know, when the IDE should
> do the symlink check and what it should do on finding one. Anjuta,
> moleskine, emacs, ... every editor does it differently.
>
>
> > You could do that on each of the opened editor files and on the
> > error from the compiler to see if they match...
>
> If I understand it correct, you suggest to do a symlink check whenever a
> file is opened automatically in the editor. Should there be a message or
> should it automatically go to the already opened file?

There should be a message. In the best case, make it configurable.
'Warn when opening symlinked file twice' or something.

Michael.