2008/8/10 Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Am Freitag, den 08.08.2008, 08:20 +0200 schrieb Emmanuel Dupoux: > > if you open a directory through a symbolic link > > you are stuck in the subpart of the directory tree that is pointed by > > the link. > > It is a major pain in the neck. Is there a way to access the .. > > directory? > > No, because that's how symbolic links are supposed to work, and how they > work in a UNIX shell.
You are perfectly right! I was so much used to the Windows shortcuts, I thought it worked the same in Unix. [There is a slight inconsistency within nautilus, though, that confused me: when you open a term using the right click 'open in a terminal' within a directory pointed to via a symbolic link, it does open it with the 'real' physical path, not the symbolic path.] If you want a shortcut rather than a "pseudo > duplicate", you have to create a launcher, for instance by > right-clicking on the desktop, chosing "Create Launcher..." and entering > the target URI into the dialog. You can then move the launcher wherever > you want. yes; I created a launcher for nautilus with the appropriate directory as target; it works perfectly; thanks! I have been thinking about more intuitive ways of exposing the launcher > vs. symbolic link concept, but I could not come up with a satisfying > solution. Maybe both should be called "Link", and for local links you > have two right-click context menu entries > > [ ] Symbolic Link > [X] Launchable Link, or Shortcut This would be great! (Shortcut is a good name) by the way, this would allow to modify the path of the symbolic link, which you cannot do at present. Toggling would replace the symlink with a launcher and vice versa. The > proposed naming is poor, a concise naming that is intuitive for the > majority of users has to be found. In essence, the difference is > "behaves-like" vs. "points-to". > it looks like a difference between intensional vs denotational semantics. thanks again Emmanuel
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