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From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
To: Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com>
Cc: 5751@debbugs.gnu.org, Arne Schmitz <arne.schmitz@gmx.net>
Subject: bug#5751: Strange behaviour of ff-find-other-file
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:25:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fb4tj6l.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2shttzdod.fsf@Andrews-MacBook-Pro.local> (Andrew Hyatt's message of "Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:16:02 -0400")

reopen 5751
tags 5751 - notabug
severity 5751 wishlist
retitle 5751 Let ff-find-other-file search other directories (in "project"?)
quit

Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:

> Sorry for the delay in response here.  I think I understand what you are
> saying, but I think we probably would both agree this is more of a
> feature request than a bug.
>
> But I'm not sure it makes sense as a feature request - just because you
> have foo.c and foo.h, it is dangerous to think they are related just
> because they both exist as buffers.  I frequently have multiple copies
> of the same file open in different directories to work on different
> issues - it would be a bug if ff-find-other-file started flipping
> between two very different working directories.
>
> So, I'm closing this one as not a bug. 

I'm reopening, because I think this does make sense as a feature
request.  Generally foo.c and foo.h will be related if they are in the
same "project", so probably the user will want the file to be found in
this case.  I think Emacs recently got some kind of "project API" thing,
perhaps that can be used for this?






  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-26  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-21 19:21 bug#5751: Strange behaviour of ff-find-other-file Arne Schmitz
2016-08-25  4:16 ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-08-26  1:25   ` npostavs [this message]
2016-08-28  5:18     ` Andrew Hyatt
2016-08-29 21:55       ` Noam Postavsky

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