GNU bug report logs - #39349
browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory symlinks

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Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:41:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 39349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#39349: browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory symlinks
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:32:07 +0200

Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org> writes:

> On Jul 23 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>
>> 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".
>
> Isn't that what expand-file-name does?

No, it resolves symlinks:

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Convert filename NAME to absolute, and canonicalize it.
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