Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:20:28 +0200
> 
> >"EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>   EZ> completely.  Which is why I think using a drive letter is a better
>   EZ> solution in the long run.
> 
> It's not what I want. I switched from drive letters to symlinks some
> years ago, and I am happy with it. I use links to hide the
> implementation of directories: one or more servers, or local disks.

You could map \\smbserver\foo to drive Y:, say, and then symlink to
Y:\ instead of the server.  Doesn't that work and allow you to hide
the implementation just the same?

An alternative is to make a local change in compilation-find-file to
not use file-truename (assuming that the problem in bug#8035 can never
happen to you).

Anyway, you are fighting Windows here, so I can only wish you good
luck in that fight.  (And maybe some day they will remove this
limitation from cmd.exe.  More improbable miracles have happened...)