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From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
To: Qiang <qiang.fang@zoho.com.cn>
Cc: 64131@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64131: make resolving symlinks in compilation-find-file optional
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 02:39:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmCT5=mgp3=75U71_bEzVCPx__PytGoEO13DDgkO12u1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cyyob3xm.wl-qiang.fang@zoho.com.cn> (Qiang's message of "Tue,  12 Sep 2023 09:01:09 +0800")

Qiang <qiang.fang@zoho.com.cn> writes:

> Without that tiny modification, I have problem jump to the file in my
> git-annex folder, it jump to the actual database folder, what I want
> to the folder that have the symlink. I think it should be the default.
>
> People use symlinks to organize text documents, a file may have links
> in different dirs. For example, if we use dirs as catalogues, when a
> file is opened following the search result in a "rg" buffer, it would
> be convenient to jump to the catalogue by just M-x "dired". However,
> the current behavior is to jump to the dir that has the symlink
> destination file. For people using git-annex, the symlink destination
> dir could be a database dir, and it is not supposed to be accessed
> directly.

Could you provide a recipe for how to test this, for someone that
doesn't use git-annex but would be happy to install it?

Or even better, could you produce a recipe that doesn't rely on
git-annex?





  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-10 10:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-17 13:18 bug#64131: make resolving symlinks in compilation-find-file optional Qiang Fang via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-11 18:06 ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-11 23:56   ` Qiang via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12  0:33     ` Stefan Kangas
2023-09-12  0:59       ` Qiang via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-12  1:01       ` Qiang via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-10 10:39         ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2024-01-10 13:29           ` Eli Zaretskii

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