Finder aliases ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

I just found (...) that Finder aliases seem to not be supported in Aquamacs.

I don't think that's intended, but is there a technical reason for this (besides for "nobody coded that yet", which I'm also fine with).

Jean-Christophe

[David Reitter]

My guess is that we’re using file access APIs that are too low-level, and nobody really complained about this.
I did notice it at some point, though. It’s worthwhile fixing if it’s not too difficult.

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[Jean-Christophe Helary]

It doesn't look trivial.

I found some C code linked from the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias_(Mac_OS)
http://hints.macworld.com/dlfiles/getTrueName.txt

But it uses deprecated functions...

Jean-Christophe

[David Reitter]

Yes, that’s outdated. References to files should normally by reference/ID, not by name, but that isn’t an option in the Emacs world.

Consider this code:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1175094/os-x-terminal-command-to-resolve-path-of-an-alias