Monday, November 5, 2018

Re: using "gf" or "^Wf" with symlinked files?

On 2018-11-05 10:36, Matt Ackeret wrote:
> dumb suggestion on my part - use a hard link instead of a soft link?

Neither hard- nor sym- link makes a difference. At least in the case
of the symlink, vim has a hope of knowing where the destination
directory is, whereas with a hard link, it would have to scavenge the
file-system for other directories containing the same inode#.

That said, I tend to default to symlinks unless I have a compelling
reason to do otherwise. Fewer surprises when things cross
file-system boundaries.

-tim


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