[slime-devel] M-p/M-n doesn't move to the note in cvs slime and xemacs

[Brian Downing]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 12:43:30PM +0200, Helmut Eller wrote:
> One possible cause is that the file is a symlink or in a directory
> that is a symlink.  The compiler notes contain absolute filenames and
> XEmacs somehow opens a second buffer even if an open buffer exists
> but only for the symlinked file.  So the notes are only inserted in
> the other buffer and M-n/M-p can't find them.  Maybe there's a way to
> customize this symlink stuff in XEmacs.

In GNU Emacs the variable to frob to control this behavior I believe is
'find-file-existing-other-name'.  I had lots of trouble with that and
tags search at work, as I have "/build/foo" linked to "/mnt/build1/foo".

-bcd