path)))
(defun eshell-expand-multiple-dots (path)
+ ;; FIXME: This advice recommendation is rather odd: it's somewhat
+ ;; dangerous and it claims not to work with minibuffer-completion, which
+ ;; makes it much less interesting.
"Convert `...' to `../..', `....' to `../../..', etc..
With the following piece of advice, you can make this functionality
available in most of Emacs, with the exception of filename completion
in the minibuffer:
- (defadvice expand-file-name
- (before translate-multiple-dots
- (filename &optional directory) activate)
- (setq filename (eshell-expand-multiple-dots filename)))"
+ (advice-add 'expand-file-name :around #'my-expand-multiple-dots)
+ (defun my-expand-multiple-dots (orig-fun filename &rest args)
+ (apply orig-fun (eshell-expand-multiple-dots filename) args))"
(while (string-match "\\(?:^\\|/\\)\\.\\.\\(\\.+\\)\\(?:$\\|/\\)" path)
(let* ((extra-dots (match-string 1 path))
(len (length extra-dots))