error message for a nonexistent symlink

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From: K. Berry
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 11:05

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Suppose you create a nonexistent symlink:

laurie$ ln -s /nonexist/foo

And then visit `foo' in Emacs. (Which you can't do if there's any other
real files that start with `foo', which is a little strange in itself.)

Emacs gives the error `File exists, but cannot be read.'
I suppose that's true, technically speaking, but I think much more
useful error message would be something like:
`foo is a symlink to the nonexistent /nonexist/foo'.

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