Emacs integration - an overview

[Dan Christensen]

Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> writes:

> On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 14:18 -0400, Dan Christensen wrote:
>
>> But it happens because python's sys.getcwd returns the canonical path,
>> after expanding symlinks.  Maybe the solution is for hg to use
>> os.path.realpath on all filenames?
>
> I don't think so.  It's pretty expensive.

I think it would only be needed for absolute filenames specified on
the command line, right?  So the speed should matter too much.  But,
in any case,

  os.path.realpath("/home/jdc/CayleyDickson/python")

only takes 0.57 milliseconds on my laptop, and 0.32 milliseconds
when given a path with no symlinks.

If hg doesn't get this feature, I wonder if mercurial.el can work
around this by either using relative pathnames, or using the
elisp equivalent of realpath before forking hg.

Dan