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bug#4050: 23.1.50; iswitchb virtual buffers don't play well with symlink
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
bug#4050: 23.1.50; iswitchb virtual buffers don't play well with symlinks |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:25:39 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stephen Eglen <S.J.Eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk> writes:
Hi Stephen,
> When iswitchb opens teach, it uses find-file-noselect, which opens the
> file 'teaching.org' with that name as the buffer, rather than using
> the name 'teach'. The fix then is to tell iswitchb to use the name
> returned by find-file-noselect. I've attached a new version of the
> function iswitchb-read-buffer - please can you test it to see that it
> solves the problem for you Tassilo, and then I'll commit a patch.
It works.
> I guess the only issue is whether the buffer should be called the name
> of the symlink 'teach' or the name of the real file 'teaching.org' -
> is there a way to tell Emacs to prefer the symlink name?
I prefer the real file's name, because that's the way `find-file'
handles it. The current version does exactly that, and I'm happy with
it. :-)
Bye,
Tassilo