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Re: find-file-visit-truename
From: |
Samuel Wales |
Subject: |
Re: find-file-visit-truename |
Date: |
Tue, 30 May 2023 21:51:28 -0700 |
more below.
On 5/29/23, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> By contrast, the default mode line shows the _buffer_ name, not the
> _file_ name. If you want to see the file name, you need to customize
> mode-line-buffer-identification to show that; by default it uses %b,
> which shows the buffer name. I suspect that this is how it used to
i tried f and it showd a full path name. i'm not sure if a full path
name is always needed? can a basename suffice?
i do seem to recall the truename showing there but who knows.
> work for you in previous versions of Emacs, since the code which shows
> the buffer identification on the mode line hasn't changed in decades.
>
>
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