From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Fabrice Popineau <fabrice.popineau@gmail.com>
Cc: 36945@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36945: 27.0.50; read-library-name
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:46:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv1rj4yu9n.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFgFV9OrY9LQpbK4GPC1qa76q2zwbEr=ahDM67ehygHrHORx9A@mail.gmail.com> (Fabrice Popineau's message of "Tue, 6 Aug 2019 11:48:12 +0200")
> read-library-name offers <name> and <name>.elc for each library name.
> I expect that .elc names should not be offered.
I think it should indeed not be displayed when `<name>` is already
listed alongside others, but when the users type `<name> TAB` it would
make sense to list the `.elc` file since it's quite possible that they
want to choose between the `.el` and the `.elc` version of the file.
> .dir-locals
> .elpaignore
> .elpaignore
> .git
> .git
>
> in the list of propositions. These are obviously not library names.
~/.emacs is a common name for a file that can be loaded, so I will
object to it being "obvious". Also, while `.git` should preferably not
be listed, `.git/` arguably could since you might keep Elisp files in
there.
So I think we should list all directories, but I agree we should
probably strip away all files whose name doesn't end in `.el`, `.elc`,
`.el.gz` (and any other such extension in `load-suffixes`), and we
should ideally only list the extension when it's the only
remaining choice.
Oh, and another reason to keep files that don't just end in `.el` is
when you want to load `foo.el.BAK` or `foo.el~`, so maybe we should only
skip those files which don't have `.el` somewhere in their name :-(
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-14 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-06 9:48 bug#36945: 27.0.50; read-library-name Fabrice Popineau
2019-08-23 4:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-08-26 14:55 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-08-27 7:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-05 23:31 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-14 20:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2020-09-15 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-15 13:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-17 14:40 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-17 16:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-15 15:32 ` Drew Adams
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