Re: Change in 28.1 in opening a file from grep results on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 16:07:23 -0400
> From:  Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> > It's still not very consistent in Emacs. If I open a dired buffer on
> > the linked directory, and open a file from the dired buffer, its path
> > is that of the linked directory. If I open a file from the compilation
> > buffer its path is that of the target directory.
> 
> Can you try setting up `directory-abbrev-alist`?
> 
> AFAIK it was introduced for similar purposes (e.g. for people using the
> old `amd` automounter which turned /net/<host> into a symlink to
> /tmp_mnt/<host>, but if you stopped using the symlink `amd` would then
> unmount /tmp_mnt/<host> after a timeout and your direct access to
> /tmp_mnt/<host> would then fail).

That variable is supposed to be set up for each symlinked directory?
I think that is only reasonable to expect if a symlink never changes,
which is not what happens in this case, AFAIU.