bug#70036: a fix that

[Theodor Thornhill]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Theodor Thornhill <theo@thornhill.no>
>> Cc: felician.nemeth@gmail.com, 70036@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2024 13:32:42 +0200
>> 
>> I wonder - why can't we use just buffer-file-truename?
>
> buffer-file-truename records the _abbreviated_ file name, so it can
> depend on directory-abbrev-alist.  Whether this is important here, I
> don't know, but we must at least consider this caveat before we
> decide.

Yeah, it also seems some of functions in question don't need 'path' to
be an existing buffer. I'll look at it, but I think it may be a no-go.

Theo