Relative aliases

[Christiaan Hofman]

On 26 Oct 2007, at 9:24 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:

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> Am 26.10.2007 um 20:47 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
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>> Aliases do much more than symlinks, they should be able to find  
>> file by relative or absolute path or by file ID. We want to have  
>> all of this [...]
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> You can't ask for an entry working in different locations and on  
> different files while hoping the entry would consider absolute  
> paths or file IDs.
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You can, if you can, why not? It's what the docs say: resolving an  
alias *tries* to find a file, first by relative path, then by  
absolute path, then by fileID. If you are *not* on the same location  
the latter 2 may fail, but it doesn't mean it can't try. On another  
location, they may simply fail. My point is that I fail to make the  
relative path search work, and *that* should certainly be possible  
across locations, right?

Christiaan

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> Possibly, I understood your request wrongly.
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