Re: [STUMP] [PATCH] Don't dereference symlinks in program completion list.

[Shawn Betts]

Ben Spencer <address@hidden> writes:

> The directory function dereferences symlinks in its results, so if you
> have /usr/bin/firefox -> ../lib/iceweasel/iceweasel (as debian does),
> you won't be able to complete on firefox.  This patch fixes that.
> I've included support for as many lisp implementations as I could, but
> I've only tested this end-to-end on sbcl, clisp and ccl.

Excellent. I've always been annoyed by that. Your patch is in the repo!

I also patched up directory-no-deref to "work" with sbcl versions
earlier than 24. where "work" means the old behavior.

-Shawn