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Make find-file-noselect not pick buffers with broken symlinks

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* lisp/files.el (find-buffer-visiting): Improve doc string.
(find-file-noselect): Don't pick buffers with broken symlinks,
because that's too confusing (bug#41414).
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Lars Ingebrigtsen 2022-06-06 15:49:36 +02:00
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@ -2102,8 +2102,11 @@ started Emacs, set `abbreviated-home-dir' to nil so it will be recalculated)."
"Return the buffer visiting file FILENAME (a string).
This is like `get-file-buffer', except that it checks for any buffer
visiting the same file, possibly under a different name.
If PREDICATE is non-nil, only buffers satisfying it are eligible,
and others are ignored.
and others are ignored. PREDICATE is called with the buffer as
the only argument, but not with the buffer as the current buffer.
If there is no such live buffer, return nil."
(let ((predicate (or predicate #'identity))
(truename (abbreviate-file-name (file-truename filename))))
@ -2324,7 +2327,16 @@ the various files."
(attributes (file-attributes truename))
(number (nthcdr 10 attributes))
;; Find any buffer for a file that has same truename.
(other (and (not buf) (find-buffer-visiting filename))))
(other (and (not buf)
(find-buffer-visiting
filename
;; We want to filter out buffers that we've
;; visited via symlinks and the like, where
;; the symlink no longer exists.
(lambda (buffer)
(let ((file (buffer-local-value
'buffer-file-name buffer)))
(and file (file-exists-p file))))))))
;; Let user know if there is a buffer with the same truename.
(if other
(progn