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: Tue, 24 May 2022 02:59:17 +0200 Message-ID: <87wneb690a.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87wneixx7x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> <878rqsyo1x.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="18131"; 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:khqvcCFpwI5E+xivM4MDN2ljpiQ= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 03:00:48 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 1ntIul-0004X6-Nw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 03:00:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44300 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntIuk-00043O-Cu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 21:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54928) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntItT-000437-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 20:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:48994) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntItR-0002UP-Vo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 20:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ntItQ-00030g-5Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 02:59:24 +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:137377 Archived-At: ;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*- ;; ;; this file: ;; https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/geh.el (require 'cl-lib) (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)) )) ;; /home/incal/test/dired: ;; lrwxrwxrwx 1 incal 10 May 23 22:41 target-link.txt -> target.txt ;; -rw-r--r-- 1 incal 0 May 23 22:41 target.txt (dired-find-link-target "~/test/dired/target-link.txt") -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal