GNU bug report logs - #70036
30.0.50; Move file-truename to the C level

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From: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: felician.nemeth <at> gmail.com, 70036 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, theo <at> thornhill.no
Subject: bug#70036: a fix that
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:49:38 +0100

On Fri, Apr 19, 2024 at 9:27 AM João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's only now, that we decided symlinks _should_ be resolved by Emacs,
>
> I _think_, but can't be 100% sure, that I explicitly decided that 6 years
> ago, I just didn't document it  explicitly beyond typing in "file-truename".
> Git archeology brings me to a commit in 2018 where I was reorganizing
> code, and file-truename was already there.  I definitely knew about
> expand-file-name in 2018 though.

The fact that I chose find-buffer-visiting over get-file-buffer around
the same time is another hint...

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