From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: emacsclient/dired ignores symlinks Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:37:58 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fzf7xyx5.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <3FCE239F.5090907@yahoo.com> <3FE73614.9020007@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072461211 25225 80.91.224.253 (26 Dec 2003 17:53:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:53:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 26 18:53:28 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZw9P-0003cj-00 for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 18:53:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZx6Y-0007ga-NI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:54:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AZx6H-0007KR-2j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:54:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1AZx5c-0006dd-WB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:54:09 -0500 Original-Received: from [204.74.68.40] (helo=frodo.hserus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.24) id 1AZx5b-0006IB-MQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 13:53:35 -0500 Original-Received: from tc218-187-82-206.2-7.pl.apol.com.tw ([218.187.82.206]:32914 helo=jidanni.org) by frodo.hserus.net with asmtp (Cipher TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.30 #2) id 1AZw7w-000ER1-Qw by authid with plain for ; Fri, 26 Dec 2003 23:21:59 +0530 Original-Received: from jidanni by jidanni.org with local (Exim 4.24) id 1AZvuQ-0000dV-Iz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:37:58 +0800 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <3FE73614.9020007@yahoo.com> (Kevin Rodgers's message of "Mon, 22 Dec 2003 11:21:08 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:6399 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:6399 K> What is the value of the PWD environment variable after you cd to K> some_dir_that_is_a_symlink? $ echo $PWD /home/jidanni/jidanni.org $ emacsclient -n . (pwd)"Directory ~/mywebsites/kalyke.affordablehost.com/public_html/" (getenv "PWD")"/home/jidanni" #must be from initial emacs start; disregard. (dired-smart-shell-command "echo $PWD" nil) /home/jidanni/mywebsites/kalyke.affordablehost.com/public_html Maybe emacsclient should note the value of $PWD when it starts instead of determining its own or whatever.