Re: How do I inhibit the copying of the source files to the build tree

[Doug Alcorn]

Gary Oberbrunner <address@hidden> writes:

> Doesn't (setq find-file-existing-other-name t) work for you?  I use
> gnu emacs 21.1, not xemacs, but it works fine for me on IRIX and
> Linux. There's also find-file-visit-truename, but I don't seem to need
> that.

Here's what XEmacs has to say about find-file-existing-other-name

,----
| If this is true, then the `find-file' command will check the truenames
| of all visited files when deciding whether a given file is already in
| a buffer, instead of just `buffer-file-name'.  This means that if you
| attempt to visit another file which is a symbolic link to a file which
| is already in a buffer, the existing buffer will be found instead of a
| newly-created one.  This works if any component of the pathname
| (including a non-terminal component) is a symbolic link as well, but
| doesn't work with hard links (nothing does).
`----

> In any case you can use my emacs compile.el patch, which lets you
> write something like this in your .emacs:

I'll give this a try and let you know if it works.  I know there are
significant variations between XEmacs' compile.el and GNU Emacs
compile.el.
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