Subject: bug#64131: make resolving symlinks in compilation-find-file optional

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 11:06:28 -0700

tags 64131 + moreinfo
thanks

Qiang Fang via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text
editors" <[email-masked]> writes:

> I use rg for searching in a git-annex repo, rg use compilation-find-file to jump to the file from the search result, symlinks are resolved with file-truename. But it should not resolve the symlink in the above case. See this issue for more details.
>
> https://github.com/dajva/rg.el/issues/156#issuecomment-1595654224

Could you please give a complete recipe to reproduce this, what the
result is and what you expect?  Or is this a feature request?

It's preferable if your recipe doesn't include rg.el, because otherwise
it'll be hard for us to test it.