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From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 16:47:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fskv9gm8.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: YpA2i/IkxHEAlWn8@protected.localdomain

Jean Louis wrote:

>>> Not directly with one command AFAIK.
>> 
>> Note that there are different possibilities what the user
>> might expect in several cases, e.g. if the target is
>> a directory (dired it in the containing directory or dired
>> it itself?) or if it's a symlink (most of the time you'll
>> want to see the truename, unless you need to change
>> a symlink in between) etc.
>
> For now I like that new Dired buffer is open with the target
> to be located.
>
> How do you mean to see truename, is it by message?

symlink - avoid but sometimes useful

symlink to directory - avoid avoid but can be useful

symlink to symlink - avoid avoid avoid

add support for avoid avoid avoid? avoid!

-- 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-27 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-18 20:55 Function to find symlink target Jean Louis
2022-05-18 23:00 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-22 13:52   ` Jean Louis
2022-05-22 18:02     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23  9:05       ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 20:46         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24  0:59           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24  1:09             ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-24  2:14               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24  2:27                 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-24  8:04                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24  8:52                     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-25  5:54                       ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-27  2:25                         ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27  3:31                           ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-27  8:00                             ` Jean Louis
2022-05-27 14:47                           ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-05-28  6:43                             ` Jean Louis
2022-05-28 15:29                               ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 15:43                                 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 16:08                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 16:46                                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-28 16:55                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-28 17:05                                         ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-31  6:27                                 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-31 12:24                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-31  6:31                                 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-31 12:16                                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-01  7:43                                     ` Jean Louis
2022-06-02  0:40                                       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-06-02  5:15                                         ` Jean Louis
2022-06-05  5:40                                           ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-25  5:05                 ` Jean Louis
2022-05-25 22:33                   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-29  2:01                     ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-19 23:14 ` Nick Dokos
2022-05-20  0:42   ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-23  8:17   ` Jean Louis
2022-05-23 22:49     ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-05-23 22:57       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-05-24  0:59         ` Michael Heerdegen

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