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: Mon, 23 May 2022 12:05:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87wneixx7x.fsf@dataswamp.org> <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> 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="5426"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-05-21) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon May 23 12:38:19 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 1nt5S6-0001Dj-1p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 12:38:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55906 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nt5S4-0001Z3-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 06:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48178) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nt5Ii-0005dy-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 06:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:33095) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nt5Ig-0007rX-HJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2022 06:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.239.7.76]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000081F80.00000000628B61CD.0000127C; Mon, 23 May 2022 03:28:29 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875ylxe98k.fsf@dataswamp.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SBL=0.141, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no 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:137359 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg [2022-05-22 21:04]: > Jean Louis wrote: > > > Example is this one: > > > > S lrwxrwxrwx 1 8 May 22 16:15 test1.pdf -> test.pdf > > -rw-r--r-- 1 90 May 22 15:24 basic.yml > > -rw-r--r-- 1 15K May 22 15:13 test.pdf > > > > as if I invoke function on first line it will come to -> > > test.pdf which is not what I would like. > > Right, I see. Okey then, put the search in a loop and upon > every hit goto the beginning of the match and do > > (get-text-property (point) 'dired-filename) > > this will be true for the third line's test.pdf but not > the first. When I evaluate it, I get t only, I do not understand. Tell me more about the idea of finding particular file in dired list and placing cursor on it. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/