[slime-devel] Canonicalizing filenames of non-existing files

[Ariel Badichi]

The following patch makes it possible to canonicalize filenames of
non-existing files.  This allows ED-IN-EMACS to edit new files.

Ariel

Index: swank.lisp
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RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank.lisp,v
retrieving revision 1.527
diff -u -r1.527 swank.lisp
--- swank.lisp	4 Feb 2008 20:35:11 -0000	1.527
+++ swank.lisp	7 Feb 2008 19:42:45 -0000
@@ -2171,7 +2171,7 @@
   (setf *compiler-notes* '()))
 
 (defun canonicalize-filename (filename)
-  (namestring (truename filename)))
+  (namestring (or (probe-file filename) filename)))
 
 (defslimefun compiler-notes-for-emacs ()
   "Return the list of compiler notes for the last compilation unit."