From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 20:02:35 +0200 Message-ID: <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87wneixx7x.fsf@dataswamp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="20149"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ey2KN0AtYQmoLJVUKwhSdHhcWtw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 22 20:03:49 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nspvg-00050R-3k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 20:03:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43856 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nspve-0002Ee-Pd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 14:03:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nspup-0002C8-2U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 14:02:56 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53862) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nspuh-000179-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 14:02:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nspue-0003fX-2A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 22 May 2022 20:02:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:137354 Archived-At: Jean Louis wrote: > Example is this one: > > S lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 May 22 16:15 test1.pdf -> test.pdf > -rw-r--r-- 1 90 May 22 15:24 basic.yml > -rw-r--r-- 1 15K May 22 15:13 test.pdf > > as if I invoke function on first line it will come to -> > test.pdf which is not what I would like. Right, I see. Okey then, put the search in a loop and upon every hit goto the beginning of the match and do (get-text-property (point) 'dired-filename) this will be true for the third line's test.pdf but not the first. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal