emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

[Dan Jacobson]

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.

Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

[Kevin Rodgers]

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

Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

[Dan Jacobson]

>> 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.

describe-variable should try again with any trailing punctuation removed

[Dan Jacobson]

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.

Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

[Kevin Rodgers]

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

Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks

[Dan Jacobson]

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.