From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 19:14:53 -0400 Message-ID: <877d6hm7wy.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31542"; 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: sha1:35nLrw6fe/ZIMkku8WU8JNY5d0w= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 20 01:16:25 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 1nrpNZ-00082X-IE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 May 2022 01:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36272 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrpNY-00088V-FO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 19:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56734) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrpMG-00082k-P9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 19:15:10 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48448) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nrpME-0005ZI-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 19 May 2022 19:15:04 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nrpMC-0006Ke-Fn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 May 2022 01:15:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ 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: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, 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:137317 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > Hello, > > I have made this function to find the target of a symlink in dired, it opens > new Dired window and tries to locate the file. I have tried finding > such function in Dired and did not succeed, maybe it exists in Emacs > programs somewhere. > C-h f file-symlink-p -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler