On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:25 PM wrote: > reopen 5751 > tags 5751 - notabug > severity 5751 wishlist > retitle 5751 Let ff-find-other-file search other directories (in > "project"?) > quit > > Andrew Hyatt 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? > This makes more sense the original proposal, but I'm still not so sure. For example, how many projects have multiple directories with files called util.c? Probably quite a few. I think any assumptions we make here will be bound to cause problems.