Re: [BUG] org-refile-get-location a symlinked file [9.7-pre (release_9.6.29-1443-gb4d17c)]

[Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali@gmail.com>]

On 17/06/2024, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Makes sense.
> May you prepare a patch with the proposed change?
> See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html#first-patch

It's not really a long patch, just involves calling `file-truename` instead of `expand-file-name` in a couple of places.

diff --git a/lisp/org-refile.el b/lisp/org-refile.el
index 20b5fbd02..7c463bc67 100644
--- a/lisp/org-refile.el
+++ b/lisp/org-refile.el
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ When `org-refile-use-cache' is nil, just return POS."
             (progn
               (when (bufferp f)
                 (setq f (buffer-file-name (buffer-base-buffer f))))
-              (setq f (and f (expand-file-name f)))
+              (setq f (and f (file-truename f)))
               (when (eq org-refile-use-outline-path 'file)
                 (push (list (and f (file-name-nondirectory f)) f nil nil) tgs))
               (when (eq org-refile-use-outline-path 'buffer-name)
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ this function appends the default value from
                  #'completing-read))
         (extra (if org-refile-use-outline-path "/" ""))
         (cbnex (concat (buffer-name) extra))
-        (filename (and cfn (expand-file-name cfn)))
+        (filename (and cfn (file-truename cfn)))
         (tbl (mapcar
               (lambda (x)
                 (if (and (not (member org-refile-use-outline-path

-- Al