Ian Kelling wrote:
> This is with 7.2 windows version downloaded from vim.org. I mentioned
> how to make the symlink in the original message, but to be more
> explicit: run cmd.exe, aka the windows command line interpreter. Then
> run the command: "mklink target source", where target is the link you
> are creating and source is the file it links to. Not sure if this
> works on xp, but definitly vista or later. To see more about that
> command, run "mklink /?"
I found a page mentioning that mklink is new in Vista.
I don't have Vista (and no plans getting it), so perhaps someone else
can dive into what happens in Vim when opening a symbolic link. Vim can
handle other types of links, thus it should be a matter of detecting
that a symbolic link is being used.
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