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 00:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <87y1yrzwxy.fsf@web.de> References: <877d6hm7wy.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11537"; 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:e6bphDzVXv+CBx9gt1smWzRRRQU= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue May 24 00:50:40 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 1ntGsq-0002m3-Ds for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 00:50:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49438 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntGso-0006jk-SL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 18:50:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35076) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntGrp-0006jb-Ed for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 18:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:38320) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ntGrn-0007OV-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 18:49:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ntGrl-0001SW-Te for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 May 2022 00:49:33 +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:137375 Archived-At: Jean Louis writes: > Is there maybe some Dired function to jump exactly to specific file > name? I have written one so I don't think so. Maybe it is useful: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (defun my-dired-jump-close (file &optional not-this-window) "Visit file under point in its dir buffer, resolving symlinks. Display the buffer in a popup window in this frame when prefix arg given and in the selected window else." (interactive (let ((file-name-at-point (dired-get-filename))) (list (pcase nil ((guard (file-name-directory (dired-get-filename 'verbatim))) file-name-at-point) ((and (let link (file-symlink-p (if (file-directory-p file-name-at-point) (directory-file-name file-name-at-point) file-name-at-point))) (guard link)) (expand-file-name link (file-name-directory file-name-at-point))) (_ file-name-at-point)) current-prefix-arg))) (select-window (let ((split-height-threshold 15)) (display-buffer (dired-noselect (file-name-directory file)) (if not-this-window '((display-buffer-reuse-window display-buffer-pop-up-window) (inhibit-same-window . t) (reusable-frames . nil)) '((display-buffer-same-window)))))) (dired-goto-file (if (file-exists-p file) file (minibuffer-with-setup-hook (lambda () (goto-char (point-max))) (read-file-name "Dired Goto File: " nil nil nil file))))) #+end_src I use this key binding: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (define-key dired-mode-map [(control return)] #'my-dired-jump-close) #+end_src Michael.