Re: 21.x feature request: windows shortcut support

[Raymond Zeitler]

dmaster@synopsys.com (David Masterson) writes:

> 1. Parse the binary shortcut file (how do you do that?).
> 2. Extract the filename that the shortcut refers to.
> 3. Call find-alternate-file on the extracted file.
> 4. Maybe call cd to cd back to the original directory?
> 
> Then you could attach this function to "\\.lnk\\'" (don't shortcuts
> always end in ".lnk"?) in the auto-mode-alist.

There's also .PIF, which point to .BAT files.