MAP@LCS.MIT.EDU (02/02/89)
in GNU Emacs 18.50.15 of Mon Oct 24 1988 on allspice (berkeley-unix) The code in basic-save-buffer that deals with file-precious-flag does (what I think is) the wrong thing with links. Because of the way it tries to preserve the old file, you lose if it was a link (you get a copy). Doing this right seems rather complicated because it probably needs to look at the backup-by-copying* flags and notice when there is a link and follow it and stuff. For now I have offered the user that had the problem the solution of making the file not be precious (it's RMAIL that it happens in, I just wrote them an rmail-mode-hook). This isn't really the right thing though. Mike Patton