bug#4902: 23.1; directory-abbrev-alist is not handled early enough

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 4902 + wontfix
close 4902
thanks

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Obviously, there are too many different names for the same file,
>> and I want Emacs to normalize all files to a canonical
>> form; i.e. all the variations of my network home should
>> be normalized to u:/ and so forth.
>
>> directory-abbrev-alist:
>
>> '(("^//dntsrc/u/sasdjb" . "u:")
>>   ("^/u/sasdjb" . "u:")
>>   ("^//sashq/root/u/sasdjb" . "u:")
>>   ("^/nfs/sanyo/vol/vol2/u22/sasdjb" . "u:/")
>>   ("^//sashq/root/u/sasdjb" . "u:")
>>   ("^/sas/" . "//dntsrc/sas/")
>>   ("^/sasgen" . "//dntsrc/sasgen/"))
>
> The way I see it, the problem really is in the way you organize and use
> your naming structure.  So "the right solution" would be a combination
> of discipline, conventions, and symlinks to sort out this mess and make
> sure that you see much fewer variations of filenames and that all the
> ones you see work everywhere (via symlinks, for example).
>
> Now, I understand this may not be practically feasible for you, but
> I think that changing Emacs to accomodate this particular situation is
> a bit hard to justify.

That was ten years ago.

It seems like the OP found a solution to his problem, and according to
what Stefan writes above, we don't want to change anything in Emacs
here.  I'm therefore closing this as wontfix.

If that's incorrect, please reopen the bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas