From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:49:13 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (File Aliases, Misc File Ops): Add @cindex entries. X-Git-Tag: ttn-vms-21-2-B4~8776 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0725a6abd0af6fda4d377b84bf1874e67ae07be;p=emacs.git (File Aliases, Misc File Ops): Add @cindex entries. --- diff --git a/man/files.texi b/man/files.texi index 17eab9117f7..859787c3bc6 100644 --- a/man/files.texi +++ b/man/files.texi @@ -1070,6 +1070,8 @@ file, sessions are not recorded for recovery. @node File Aliases @section File Name Aliases +@cindex symbolic links (visiting) +@cindex hard links (visiting) Symbolic links and hard links both make it possible for several file names to refer to the same file. Hard links are alternate names that @@ -2859,6 +2861,7 @@ file system. On MS-DOS, it works by copying the file. the old contents of the file @var{new}. @findex make-symbolic-link +@cindex symbolic links (creation) @kbd{M-x make-symbolic-link} reads two file names @var{target} and @var{linkname}, then creates a symbolic link named @var{linkname}, which points at @var{target}. The effect is that future attempts to open file