From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function to find symlink target Date: Fri, 27 May 2022 05:25:15 +0300 Message-ID: References: <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> <878rqsyo1x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87wneb690a.fsf@dataswamp.org> <871qwjzqg5.fsf@web.de> <87o7zn65jp.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87ilpvd5s1.fsf@web.de> <87bkvn9x12.fsf@dataswamp.org> <87czg35n3g.fsf@web.de> <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18182"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Michael Heerdegen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 27 05:28:06 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 1nuQdx-0004YK-Vt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 27 May 2022 05:28:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35852 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuQdw-0008QL-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 23:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42634) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuQce-0008NL-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 23:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:59365) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nuQcc-00042H-NA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2022 23:26:44 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.225.83.19]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000081F4A.00000000629044EC.0000108D; Thu, 26 May 2022 20:26:36 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Michael Heerdegen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <871qwif973.fsf@web.de> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham 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:137416 Archived-At: * Michael Heerdegen [2022-05-25 09:38]: > Michael Heerdegen 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? -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/