Re: editing symlinked files

[Christian Mohr <christian mohr stud uni-goettingen de>]

Am Montag, 10. März 2003 09:27 schrieb Pavel Roskin:
> Hello, Christian!
>
> > When I edit a symlinked file with mc or mc -e, respectivly,
> > after saving it became an regular file. So the changes are
> > not applied to the original file and the symlink does not
> > exist any more. It this a correct behaviour of mc? Is this
> > configureable?
>
> It is configurable.  It the editor menu select Options -> Save
> Mode. Quick Save keeps the symlink and changes the original
> file.  Safe Save writes to a separate file and then replaces
> the symlink with it.

Thanks. "Quick Save" does the right job.
But then I cannot use "Do backups" anymore, can I?

Regards,
Christian