Re: find-file-visit-truename

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

more below.

On 5/29/23, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> By contrast, the default mode line shows the _buffer_ name, not the
> _file_ name.  If you want to see the file name, you need to customize
> mode-line-buffer-identification to show that; by default it uses %b,
> which shows the buffer name.  I suspect that this is how it used to

i tried f and it showd a full path name.  i'm not sure if a full path
name is always needed?  can a basename suffice?

i do seem to recall the truename showing there but who knows.

> work for you in previous versions of Emacs, since the code which shows
> the buffer identification on the mode line hasn't changed in decades.
>
>


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