From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 12 09:47:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA08260 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:47:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from milf18.bus.net (milf18.bus.net [207.41.25.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA08248 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 09:47:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cao@bus.net) Received: from localhost (cao@localhost) by milf18.bus.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA03563 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:47:21 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: milf18.bus.net: cao owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Dec 1997 12:47:21 -0500 (EST) From: "Chuck O'Donnell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: editing linked files w/emacs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While using emacs to edit to a file with more than one hard link, and saving with save-buffer (C-x C-s), emacs saves the newly edited buffer to a new disk file, leaving the remaining links to refer to the original file which is now out of date. To keep all link references current, I have to delete other links and relink the file each time I make an edit. I must be doing something wrong here. Has anyone seen this before? The version info is emacs 19.34.1 (i386--freebsd, X toolkit) installed as a package from the 2.2.2-RELEASE cdrom running under 2.2.2-RELEASE. Please reply directly as I am not on the mailing list. Thank you. Chuck O'Donnell