[TxMt] Re: TM2 file browser bug: no x to close if symbolically linked files are opened

Allan Odgaard mailinglist at textmate.org
Tue Feb 21 15:29:34 UTC 2012


On 21/02/2012, at 19.36, Max Lein wrote:

> On 21.02.2012, at 13:00, textmate-request at lists.macromates.com wrote:
> 
>> On 21/02/2012, at 17.16, Max Lein wrote:
>> 
>> […] I do understand the usability improvements of showing ? for links.
> […] it's good to know it's on the »to be fixed« list.

Which I didn’t say it was.

>>> Also, it would help if TextMate would distinguish between files and symbolic links. 
>> 
>> What do you mean by this? Maybe what I am saying above, e.g. opening ?dummy? which points to ?real_file? show ?dummy? in the title bar?
> Yes, but that means I need to *open* files to distinguish between linked files and files that are »really« in that directory. And if I have opened a bunch of files, I need to activate each tab. 
> 
> The whole point of marking linked files in the browser is to see at a glance which files are linked and which aren't.

I don’t follow this.

Symbolic links are marked with an arrow. What are you asking for here?



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