From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target
Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 00:33:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8ttb5te.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Yo25EiF/+YnDqMqV@protected.localdomain
Jean Louis wrote:
> Thank you for `dired-jump' as that is what I needed, it
> works well now, I can find target of a symlink easily.
>
> (defun rcd-dired-show-symlink-target ()
> "Show target of a symlink."
> (interactive)
> (let ((file (car (dired-get-marked-files))))
> (if (and file (file-symlink-p file))
> (let* ((target (file-truename file))
> (target-exists (file-exists-p target))
> (directory (file-name-directory target)))
> (if target-exists
> (progn
> (find-file directory)
> (dired-jump nil target))
> (message "Target does not exist: %s" target)))
> (message "Not a symlink: %s" file))))
Yes, that works. You can add an optional FILE argument and
only when that's not provided look for the first marked file
or even the file at point which is perhaps more intuitive
since it's only one file ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-25 22:33 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
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 [this message]
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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