From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target
Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 05:25:15 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YpA2i/IkxHEAlWn8@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871qwif973.fsf@web.de>
* Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2022-05-25 09:38]:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
> > 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?
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-27 2:25 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 [this message]
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
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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