bug#39349: browse-url-of-dired-file should respect directory symlinks

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 23 2020, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@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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