Re: find-file-visit-truename

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 21:51:28 -0700
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> 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 don't know, but if that is what you want, you can use :eval instead
of just %f.

> i do seem to recall the truename showing there but who knows.

Maybe some customization or something.