From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 04:27:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> References: <87wneixx7x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> <878rqsyo1x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87wneb690a.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.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="28428"; 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:e6cM+MwTwFBE9O9C7grZ4mJTSjw= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 04:28:24 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 1ntKHX-0007BB-IL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 04:28:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntKHW-00046O-8J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 22:28:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36326) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntKGW-000442-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 22:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:35968) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntKGV-0007J4-HL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 22:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ntKGT-0005s3-Dd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 04:27:17 +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: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, 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:137381 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > >> (defun dired-find-link-target (link) > >> (let*((target (file-truename link)) > >> (name (file-name-nondirectory target)) ) > >> (find-file (file-name-directory target)) > >> (goto-char (point-min)) > >> (cl-loop > >> while (re-search-forward name (point-max) t) > >> do (when (get-text-property (point) 'dired-filename) > >> (cl-return) )) > >> (goto-char (match-beginning 0)) )) > > > > Not wrong - but reinventing wheels: see `dired-jump' and > > `dired-goto-file'. > > None of these work ... > > (dired-goto-file "~/test/dired/target-link.txt") > (dired-jump "~/test/dired/target-link.txt") I didn't say your function will shrink to one line. It will shrink a lot, however. Any necessary information in the docstrings of those. Michael.