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