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Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 08:47:25 -0400 |
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>> Can you try setting up `directory-abbrev-alist`?
>>
>> AFAIK it was introduced for similar purposes (e.g. for people using the
>> old `amd` automounter which turned /net/<host> into a symlink to
>> /tmp_mnt/<host>, but if you stopped using the symlink `amd` would then
>> unmount /tmp_mnt/<host> after a timeout and your direct access to
>> /tmp_mnt/<host> would then fail).
>
> That variable is supposed to be set up for each symlinked directory?
> I think that is only reasonable to expect if a symlink never changes,
> which is not what happens in this case, AFAIU.
It's a regexp match & replace, so to some extend a single entry can
handle various symlinks, but yes, it's static, and it requires manual
set up.
IIUC in his case, the symlink is still static: it can point either to
a remote directory or to a local disk, but that depends only on the
machine on which it's run, right?
We could write a function which takes a list of "possible symlinks" and
builds a set of entries for `directory-abbrev-alist` to try and convince
Emacs to use the "clean names using symlinks" in preference to the
target of those symlinks.
[ I seem to remember that I had such a function, many years ago, but
somehow I can't find it any more, even though I'm pretty lazy when it
comes to erasing unused code from my .emacs. Maybe I dreamt it. ]
Stefan
- Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows, (continued)
Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/12
Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows, Stefan Monnier, 2022/07/12
Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/07/13
Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows,
Stefan Monnier <=
Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows, Pascal Quesseveur, 2022/07/13