David Pope wrote: > On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 3:54:09 PM UTC-4, Craig Barkhouse wrote: > > > The mch_is_linked() function in os_win32.c only checks if there is > > more than one hard link (i.e. name) for the file. It doesn't check > > if the file is a symbolic link. By contrast the Unix code does > > check if the file is a symbolic link. > > > > Sounds like a TODO item. > > Hello all, did this ever get turned into a TODO item? I've > encountered this myself (I'm syncing all my vim configuration across > machines using Dropbox, with symbolic links for .vim/, .vimrc, and > .gvimrc). > > I see in the latest Mercurial code that mch_is_linked() still only > checks for hard links. If it's not already in someone's TODO bucket I > can work on a fix. The APIs are straightforward in the versions of > Windows that support symlinks; I suspect more of the work will be in > figuring out how to get that support into vim without breaking binary > compatibility on older systems. Would the maintainers be interested > in seeing a patch for this?
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