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

[Pascal Quesseveur]

>"SM" == Stefan Monnier <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

  SM> IIUC in his case, the symlink is still static: it can point
  SM> either to a remote directory or to a local disk, but that
  SM> depends only on the machine on which it's run, right?

Yes it is something like that. I just checked and it is working
fine. I can set a regexp matching local drives and smb servers, the
match is always replaced by the same dir.

  SM> We could write a function which takes a list of "possible
  SM> symlinks" and builds a set of entries for
  SM> `directory-abbrev-alist` to try and convince Emacs to use the
  SM> "clean names using symlinks" in preference to the target of
  SM> those symlinks.

I don't even need something that complicated.

Thanks a lot.


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