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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:14:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838roxw6ov.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvh73m2j3a.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor on Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:07:23 -0400)

> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:07:23 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> > It's still not very consistent in Emacs. If I open a dired buffer on
> > the linked directory, and open a file from the dired buffer, its path
> > is that of the linked directory. If I open a file from the compilation
> > buffer its path is that of the target directory.
> 
> Can you try setting up `directory-abbrev-alist`?
> 
> AFAIK it was introduced for similar purposes (e.g. for people using the
> old `amd` automounter which turned /net/<host> into a symlink to
> /tmp_mnt/<host>, but if you stopped using the symlink `amd` would then
> unmount /tmp_mnt/<host> after a timeout and your direct access to
> /tmp_mnt/<host> would then fail).

That variable is supposed to be set up for each symlinked directory?
I think that is only reasonable to expect if a symlink never changes,
which is not what happens in this case, AFAIU.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-13 12:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12 15:36 Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 16:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 16:31   ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 16:50     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 17:04       ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 17:13         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 17:23           ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 16:56   ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 17:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 17:20       ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 17:29         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-07-12 17:41           ` Pascal Quesseveur
2022-07-12 20:07     ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-13 12:14       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-07-13 12:47         ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-07-13 16:08           ` Pascal Quesseveur

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