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

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Message #23 received at 39349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 39349 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: bug#39349: browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory
 symlinks
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:33:50 +0200

On Jul 23 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> 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:

No, that's what file-truename does.

Andreas.

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