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>>>>> In article <1992Dec17.001310.18461@parc.xerox.com>,
>>>>> macdonal@xerox.com (Dale MacDonald) writes:

Dale> Emacs version: 18.58.10 OS: SunOS 4.1.{1,2,3}

Dale> Since moving to 18.58 dired no longer follows symbolic links.
Dale> All attempts to follow one, either by C-xC-v and giving a name
Dale> which happens to be a link, or by trying to open or view a link
Dale> already being displayed in dired.  (This is particularly
Dale> annoying around here since ~/ happens to be a symlink.)

Dale> Anyone else see this?

Yes, and I still see the same thing in 18.59 on an SGI running IRIX
4.0.5.  I seem to remember this is far back as 18.57, but I'm not
positive.  Here's what I ended up doing to work around it.  Make sure
this stuff is loaded after dired.  I've found that I also need this
with tree dired.

(defun dired-is-symlink ()
  (let ((realfile (file-symlink-p (dired-get-filename))))
    (if realfile realfile (dired-get-filename))))

(defun dired-find-file ()
  "In dired, visit the file or directory named on this line."
  (interactive)
  (find-file (dired-is-symlink)))

(defun dired-find-file-other-window ()
  "In dired, visit this file or directory in another window."
  (interactive)
  (find-file-other-window (dired-is-symlink)))

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