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25.1.1; dired-jump: Interactive call w/ prefix arg move to wrong file line

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From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 24409 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24409: 25.1.1; dired-jump: Interactive call w/ prefix arg move to wrong file line
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:37:14 +0900 (JST)

On Sun, 11 Sep 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I think a better comment would be to say that dired-goto-file requires
> its argument to be an absolute file name, and the result of
> read-file-name could be an abbreviated file name.
Thank you.  I rewrote the comment/log message with your suggestion.
I included the word canonical: an abbreviated file name could be
an absolute file name, for instance ~/foo, but dired-goto-file,
in addition to absolute file name, requires the substitution of '~/'.

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From 3e58d4987590dbdb54d08fd6be201bd0cad4b804 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 13:16:32 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] dired-jump: Expand file-name before dired-goto-file call

Command dired-goto-file requires its argument to be an absolute
canonical file name.  Interactively FILE-NAME is read with
read-file-name, which could return an abbreviated file name, i.e.,
non-canonical (Bug#24409).
* lisp/dired-x.el (dired-jump): Use expand-file-name on FILE-NAME.
Clarify in doc string the meaning of arg FILE-NAME.
---
 lisp/dired-x.el | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lisp/dired-x.el b/lisp/dired-x.el
index be762e6..90420ad 100644
--- a/lisp/dired-x.el
+++ b/lisp/dired-x.el
@@ -413,14 +413,19 @@ dired-jump
 In case the proper Dired file line cannot be found, refresh the dired
 buffer and try again.
 When OTHER-WINDOW is non-nil, jump to Dired buffer in other window.
-Interactively with prefix argument, read FILE-NAME and
-move to its line in dired."
+When FILE-NAME is non-nil, move to FILE-NAME line in Dired.
+Interactively with prefix argument, read FILE-NAME."
   (interactive
    (list nil (and current-prefix-arg
                   (read-file-name "Jump to Dired file: "))))
   (if (bound-and-true-p tar-subfile-mode)
       (switch-to-buffer tar-superior-buffer)
-    (let* ((file (or file-name buffer-file-name))
+    ;; Expand file-name before `dired-goto-file' call:
+    ;; `dired-goto-file' requires its argument to be an absolute
+    ;; canonical file name; the result of `read-file-name' could
+    ;; be an abbreviated file name, i.e., non-canonical (Bug#24409).
+    (let* ((file (or (and file-name (expand-file-name file-name))
+                     buffer-file-name))
            (dir (if file (file-name-directory file) default-directory)))
       (if (and (eq major-mode 'dired-mode) (null file-name))
           (progn
-- 
2.9.3

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