From: sbaugh@catern.com
To: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>, Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>,
63829@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#63829: 29.0.90; project-find-file's future history breaks with common-parent-directory
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2023 12:02:36 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87jzu3hzqc.fsf@catern.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <iersfb48u0g.fsf@janestreet.com> (Spencer Baugh's message of "Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:55:59 -0400")
Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:
> Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
>> I think the design there was to use relative file names in history? Or
>> a different variable for project file name history (which would use
>> relative names only). I'm not ruling that out, but the patch proposed
>> here is a little more focused.
>>
>> OTOH, it only allows finding the "current" file in the other project,
>> but not other files that were previously visited too. Spencer, what do
>> you think about that capability? Do you also feel it is missing and
>> would like to look into it next? Then the current patch might be the
>> wrong direction.
>
> Hm, the main thing I want is to make it very easy to visit the current
> file in another project - I am frequently getting user requests for that
> feature. (Mainly because our workflow heavily uses a "git worktree"
> equivalent, where users have one project for each bug/branch they're
> working on, all with basically the same layout, so "visit the same file
> in a different project" is also "visit the same file in a different
> branch", which is often useful. (I actually might work on some code to
> help implement the same kind of workflow for Emacs development, one
> worktree per bug/branch))
>
> I'm not sure I understand the alternative - the idea would be to share
> project file name history between all projects? I guess that could be
> nice, although I don't personally use file name history that much, and
> AFAIK it wouldn't solve any concrete user problems, so I'm not really
> motivated to implement it.
>
> However, if we did share project file name history in that way, I'd want
> to still automatically prepend the "current file" as history. Even if
> we didn't navigate to the current file via project-find-file, I still
> want to make it very easy to visit the current file in another project.
> Just sharing project file name history doesn't provide that.
Any thoughts about this and my earlier patch? I still am interested in
providing this feature.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-01 22:32 bug#63829: 29.0.90; project-find-file's future history breaks with common-parent-directory Spencer Baugh
2023-06-02 6:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 12:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-03 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-06-03 13:48 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-03 2:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-03 11:00 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-06-04 16:36 ` Juri Linkov
2023-06-06 1:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-06-06 15:55 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-10 12:02 ` sbaugh [this message]
2023-08-12 1:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-14 20:12 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-14 22:47 ` sbaugh
2023-08-16 1:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-16 2:57 ` sbaugh
2023-08-17 2:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-17 19:41 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-17 20:12 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-18 20:57 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-19 2:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-20 17:23 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-20 17:16 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-21 1:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-23 2:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-19 2:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-19 12:00 ` sbaugh
2023-08-21 1:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-20 17:20 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-21 1:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-21 7:06 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-23 0:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-23 2:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-23 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-23 18:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-20 17:13 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-21 1:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-21 6:58 ` Juri Linkov
2023-08-23 0:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
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