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browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory symlinks

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Message #14 received at 39349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 39349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#39349: browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory
 symlinks
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:05:03 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

> LI> This function just needs to do the ../. thing.  Does Emacs have a
> LI> function that just does the right thing the ".." and "/" and does
> LI> absolutely nothing else?
>
> Not sure.

I couldn't find one, either.

Eli, the use case here is that we don't want to chase/resolve symlinks,
but we do want to have "/foo/bar/." -> "/foo/bar" and "/foo/bar/.." ->
"/foo".  Do you know whether such a utility function exists, by any
chance?  If not, would it make sense to add such a function?  (For all
other file names, the function would just return the parameter as is.)

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