[Gambas-devel] Project feature request to follow symbolic links and allow to edit/save them.

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 05/08/2013 14:53, Ron a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I want to request a new project preference which -when enabled- will
> allow to edit/save files where a symbolic link points to.
>
> Now symbolic links are displayed with an 'symbolic link' icon which is
> ok but the files are opened read only.
>
> I have two big projects sharing as much as 90 files.
>
> I can somehow understand the current behavior, but all unix editors
> (vi, gedit, file browser) allow you to edit the files when opened
> through their symbolic links.
> So the current behavior is kinda unconventional.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Ron.
>

The reason why symbolic links are read-only is because they are supposed 
to be owned by their original project, and so you have to open it to 
edit them.

Maybe the IDE could automatically open the original project to edit 
symbolic links then?

-- 
Benoît Minisini