Re: macos: Finder's alias handling

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Sep 27, 2021, at 8:30, Jean-Christophe Helary <lists@traduction-libre.org> 
> wrote:
>>> There is probably a way to use the contents of *Shell Command Output*
>>> and insert that as an argument to find-file, but I don't find that
>>> very elegant, and I'm probably missing something in the shell-command
>>> because I can't see how I can use the output as a direct argument to
>>> find-file...
>> 
>> Did you try shell-command-to-string? I found it by doing C-h d "shell
>> output string".
> 
> Yes, but it adds a "..." around the ’...’ string and that doesn't work.

The Applescript's "quoted form of" part added the original quoting so removing 
it allowed me to work around the issue.

Now, for some reason, shell-command-to-string adds a line break at the end of 
the string to I had to split and car the thing to get the proper path:

(defun jc-macos-alias ()
  (interactive)  
  (find-file
   (car (split-string (shell-command-to-string (format "osascript -e \"tell 
application \\\"Finder\\\" to return POSIX path of (original item of file 
(POSIX file \\\"%s\\\") as alias)\"" (buffer-file-name))) "[\n\r]+" t))))

If there are cleaner ways to do this, I'm a taker :-)

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