* Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks
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@ 2003-12-03 17:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-21 16:46 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-12-03 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> If one does
> $ cd some_dir_that_is_a_symlink
> $ emacsclient some_dir
> the dired buffer created has the real path of the dir, ignoring all
> our symlinks. I.e. works fine, except it refers to everything by the
> real path names.
What is the value of find-file-visit-truename?
--
Kevin Rodgers
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2003-12-03 17:55 ` emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks Kevin Rodgers
@ 2003-12-21 16:46 ` Dan Jacobson
2003-12-21 17:06 ` describe-variable should try again with any trailing punctuation removed Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-12-21 16:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
>> If one does
>> $ cd some_dir_that_is_a_symlink
>> $ emacsclient some_dir
>> the dired buffer created has the real path of the dir, ignoring all
>> our symlinks. I.e. works fine, except it refers to everything by the
>> real path names.
K> What is the value of find-file-visit-truename?
nil. So something is wrong.
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2003-12-03 17:55 ` emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-21 16:46 ` Dan Jacobson
@ 2003-12-21 17:06 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-12-21 17:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
Gentlemen, I was recently asked
K> What is the value of find-file-visit-truename?
well, I put the cursor on it and hit C-h v, and was not prompted with
its name, because of the trailing "?".
Indeed, only the last of these
find-file-visit-truename?
find-file-visit-truename.
find-file-visit-truename,
find-file-visit-truename
will get you prompted nicely.
So, brushing aside niceties like what characters are legal in variable
names, describe-variable should be more intelligent: if no match, try
again with any trailing punctuation removed.
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* Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks
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@ 2003-12-22 18:21 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-12-26 17:37 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-12-22 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
>>>If one does
>>>$ cd some_dir_that_is_a_symlink
>>>$ emacsclient some_dir
>>>the dired buffer created has the real path of the dir, ignoring all
>>>our symlinks. I.e. works fine, except it refers to everything by the
>>>real path names.
>>>
>
> K> What is the value of find-file-visit-truename?
>
> nil. So something is wrong.
What is the value of the PWD environment variable after you cd to
some_dir_that_is_a_symlink?
--
Kevin Rodgers
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2003-12-22 18:21 ` emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks Kevin Rodgers
@ 2003-12-26 17:37 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-12-26 17:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
K> What is the value of the PWD environment variable after you cd to
K> some_dir_that_is_a_symlink?
$ echo $PWD
/home/jidanni/jidanni.org
$ emacsclient -n .
(pwd)"Directory ~/mywebsites/kalyke.affordablehost.com/public_html/"
(getenv "PWD")"/home/jidanni" #must be from initial emacs start; disregard.
(dired-smart-shell-command "echo $PWD" nil)
/home/jidanni/mywebsites/kalyke.affordablehost.com/public_html
Maybe emacsclient should note the value of $PWD when it starts instead
of determining its own or whatever.
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* emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks
@ 2003-12-03 4:21 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-12-03 4:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
If one does
$ cd some_dir_that_is_a_symlink
$ emacsclient some_dir
the dired buffer created has the real path of the dir, ignoring all
our symlinks. I.e. works fine, except it refers to everything by the
real path names.
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