From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
Cc: 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: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 16:12:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ier350lqt77.fsf@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d3f75983-1d7f-fbd1-dda0-83377165295f@gutov.dev> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:23:14 +0300")
Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev> writes:
> Hi Spencer,
>
> Thanks for the ping.
>
> On 06/06/2023 18:55, Spencer Baugh wrote:
>
>>> But so far the patch over there is not complete yet, is it? I wouldn't
>>> say it's a settled matter so far.
>> Yes, I expect there are any number of alternative implementation
>> strategies, I'm not at all tied to using
>> project-current-directory-override. Happy to port to whatever approach
>> we end up with.
>
> Notes:
>
> - We're still using project-current-directory-override, not migrated
> to anything else yet.
> - I've pushed my earlier patch which should fix the immediate bug as
> reported.
>
> Let's talk about yours a little bit more. I'm a little wary of adding
> a specialized feature this way (being able to visit the file
> corresponding to the current one only), but that patch might be the
> most optimal still.
>
>>>> BTW, I asked about this before inhttps://debbugs.gnu.org/58447#127
>>>> and then it was deemed to be not too general to handle, so I backed it out
>>>> inhttps://debbugs.gnu.org/58447#160 with such conclusion:
>>>> OTOH, `C-x p f M-p' in another project is not my primary
>>>> workflow.
>>>> But if someone wants to keep a plain history, this could be added
>>>> later in master, e.g. by a new value of project-read-file-name-function
>>>> and a function that is mostly a copy of project--read-file-cpd-relative.
>>>> So maybe this could be implemented in master now?
>>>
>>> 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 suppose one other way to do that would be to create a dedicated
> command just for that. But that's a little clunkier -- would require a
> separate binding.
>
>> 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.
>
> The alternative is a little more general, e.g. propertize every such
> history entry with the value of the root, so that they can be
> post-processed to adapt to any other root directory.
>
> This shouldn't take too much work, actually. But I don't know if that
> is indeed a necessary feature. From the discussion
> (https://debbugs.gnu.org/58447), I had been under impression that it
> would be wanted, but it might be just "nice to have".
I would be happy to do that. That sounds very cool actually.
Can you elaborate on how exactly you imagine this happening? I guess,
every time someone enters a filename with project-find-file or
project-find-dir, we would include a propertized version of that
filename in file-name-history? And then we would re-relativize them and
adapt them to the current project when including them as history?
And also, we'd always prepend the current file as "future history",
propertized in this way?
> Juri, are *you* okay with the functionality in Spencer's patch? No
> need for further generality?
>
>> 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.
>
> Fair point.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-14 20:12 UTC|newest]
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
2023-08-12 1:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-08-14 20:12 ` Spencer Baugh [this message]
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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