bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Thibault Kruse]

Hi, the ffap function of ido mode in emacs makes bad guesses after javadoc-style comments:
/**
and xml node ends
<test />

to reproduce:
emacs -q --no-site-file
M-x ido-mode
M-x customize-option ido-use-filename-at-point
Choose guess, set for current session
open *scratch* buffer

enter /**
cursor at the end of that line
M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /**, instead of pwd
enter <test />
cursor at the end of that line
M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /, instead of pwd

same for M-x ffap



In GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-03-29 on rothera, modified by Debian
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10706000
configured using `configure  '--build=i486-linux-gnu' '--host=i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var/lib' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs23:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/23.1/leim' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk' '--with-toolkit-scroll-bars' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -g -O2' 'LDFLAGS=-g' 'CPPFLAGS=''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
M-x <up> <up> M-x c u s <tab> - o <tab> <return> <up> 
i d o <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
u <tab> <tab> <backspace> <tab> <tab> <tab> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g M-x <up> <return> 
i d o - u s <tab> <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> C-g M-x i d o <tab> 
m o <tab> <return> M-x <up> <up> <return> i d o <tab> 
u <tab> s <tab> f i <tab> <return> C-x b s c r <return> 
/ * * C-x C-f C-g M-x i d <tab> o <tab> m o <tab> <return> 
x M-x <up> <return> M-x <up> <up> <return> <up> <return> 
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> C-x b <return> <backspace> C-x C-f C-g 
M-x i d o - o <tab> <backspace> <backspace> f i <tab> 
f i <tab> <return> C-g M-x f f a <tab> <return> C-g 
M-x <up> <up> <up> <return> <up> <return> <down-mouse-1> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <help-echo> 
C-x b <return> C-x C-f C-g <return> < t e s t SPC / 
> M-x f f a <tab> <return> C-g <down-mouse-1> <mouse-movement> 
<mouse-1> M-x r e p o <tab> <tab> e <backspace> <return> 
r t <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Creating customization setup...done
To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation
Quit [3 times]
Creating customization items...
Creating customization items ...done
Resetting customization items...done
Creating customization setup...done
To install your edits, invoke [State] and choose the Set operation
Quit [2 times]
Making completion list... [2 times]
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bug#7229: patch

[Thibault Kruse]

HI,

i dont know where the ffap sources are in emacs 23.1, therefore I could not write a patch myself, but as a workaround, I created this advice. Maybe it can help.

(require 'advice)
(defadvice ffap-file-at-point (around bugfix-ffap  activate)
  "returns nil when point is somewhere we do not want to guess filenames"
  (require 'thingatpt)
;;; prevent in javadoc style comments
  (narrow-to-region (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position))
  (unless (or
           (thing-at-point-looking-at "[\\*]+")
           ;; for xml modes, not sure about other modes
           (and (member major-mode '(sgml-mode nxml-mode))
                ;; ignore about <somenode/> and </somenode>
                (or (thing-at-point-looking-at "</?[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9:_.-]+")
                    (thing-at-point-looking-at "/>"))))
    ad-do-it))

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bug#7229: patch

[Thibault Kruse]

sorry, wrong path, narrow-to-region is applied wrongly in my last comment:

(require 'advice)
(defadvice ffap-file-at-point (around bugfix-ffap  activate)
  "returns nil when point is somewhere we do not want to guess filenames"
  (require 'thingatpt)
;;; prevent in javadoc style comments
  (unless (or
           (thing-at-point-looking-at "[\\*]+")
           ;; for xml modes
           (and (member major-mode '(sgml-mode nxml-mode))
                ;; don't care about <somenode/> and </somenode>
                (or (thing-at-point-looking-at "</?[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9:_.-]+")
                    (thing-at-point-looking-at "/>"))))
    ad-do-it))
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bug#7229: further patch

[Thibault Kruse]

More things that annoy me, patched, and missed closing ">" in xml mode:


;; ignore shebang lines like #!/bin/bash
(thing-at-point-looking-at "#!/[a-zA-Z0-9:_.-/]+")

(and (member major-mode '(sgml-mode nxml-mode))
                ;; don't care about <somenode/> and </somenode>
                (or (thing-at-point-looking-at "</?[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9:_.-]*>?")
                    (thing-at-point-looking-at "/>"))))
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bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

On 2010-10-17 04:08 +0800, Thibault Kruse wrote:
> enter /**
> cursor at the end of that line
> M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /**, instead of pwd
> enter <test />
> cursor at the end of that line
> M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /, instead of pwd
>
> same for M-x ffap

I don't see any bugs here. ido and ffap seem working consistently per
your request (/** and / are valid file names).

Leo

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Dmitry Gutov]

Leo Liu <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2010-10-17 04:08 +0800, Thibault Kruse wrote:
>> enter /**
>> cursor at the end of that line
>> M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /**, instead of pwd
>> enter <test />
>> cursor at the end of that line
>> M-x ido-find-file (or C-x f): ido suggests /, instead of pwd
>>
>> same for M-x ffap
>
> I don't see any bugs here. ido and ffap seem working consistently per
> your request (/** and / are valid file names).

Maybe we should be able to restrict `ffap-file-at-point' to local files
(which it checks for existence).

After all, the variable that enables this behavior is called
`ido-use-filename-at-point', and the description does not tell you that
the thing at point could be interpreted as a remote URL.

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-07-13 07:03 +0800, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Maybe we should be able to restrict `ffap-file-at-point' to local files
> (which it checks for existence).
>
> After all, the variable that enables this behavior is called
> `ido-use-filename-at-point', and the description does not tell you that
> the thing at point could be interpreted as a remote URL.

Is ffap-url-regexp enough?

Leo

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 13.07.2013 5:20, Leo Liu wrote:
> On 2013-07-13 07:03 +0800, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
>> Maybe we should be able to restrict `ffap-file-at-point' to local files
>> (which it checks for existence).
>>
>> After all, the variable that enables this behavior is called
>> `ido-use-filename-at-point', and the description does not tell you that
>> the thing at point could be interpreted as a remote URL.
>
> Is ffap-url-regexp enough?

Not 100% sure what you mean, but probably not:

1) It doesn't match "/**", a value which apparently (ffap-guesser) can 
return even if there's no existing file with that name.

2) Likewise, it doesn't match "http:/". And I'm sure we can find other 
examples.

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

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From: "Thibault Kruse" <thibault.kruse@gmx.de>
To: "Leo Liu" <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Aw: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 01:50:57 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <trinity-fba17496-0150-43f3-b09d-37da878e8e87-1373586656940@3capp-gmx-bs54>

bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-07-12 09:20 +0800, Leo Liu wrote:
> Then maybe call it sub-optimal default behavior instead of a bug.

From my experience I agree.

I enabled ido-use-url-at-point and ido-use-filename-at-point for a while
and was constantly annoyed by false positives and negatives. I have set
both to nil in the last few years.

Maybe the feature can be changed this way:

 1. remove both ido-use-url-at-point and ido-use-filename-at-point
 2. when ido-find-file is invoked with prefix, use ffap.

You can experiment this with the following:

(setq ido-use-filename-at-point nil
      ido-use-url-at-point nil)
(defadvice ido-file-internal (around ffap activate)
  "When called with a prefix, use `ffap' instead."
  (if current-prefix-arg
      (ffap)
    ad-do-it))

Let me know if this is a good idea and should be part of ido.el. Thanks.

Leo

bug#7229: Aw: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

Please CC the bug address.

On 2013-07-12 15:36 +0800, Thibault Kruse wrote:
> It seems that for me, doing so always yields a curent-prefix-arg that
> is nil, not sure why.

Do you have ffap settings that interfere? Do you try with emacs -q?

Leo

bug#7229: Aw: Re: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-07-12 15:52 +0800, Thibault Kruse wrote:
> I tried: 
> emacs -q --no-site-file
> M-x ido-mode
> M-x ielm
> pasted the lines you gave
> switch to scratch buffer
> typed "~/local" which exists
> press C-x C-f

Instead of C-x C-f, Try C-u C-x C-f.

> no prefix is used, ido just shows ~
> debugger also indicates the prefix var is nil

Please please write to the bug address 7229@debbugs.gnu.org instead of
my email.

Leo

bug#7229: Aw: Re: Re: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Thibault Kruse]

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bug#7229: Aw: Re: Re: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Leo Liu]

On 2013-07-13 16:01 +0800, Thibault Kruse wrote:
> Again, it is a design decision, not a bug. I believe emacs users will
> be happier if C-x C-f with ido-ffap uses heuristics to avoid common
> false positives, rather than having to learn another shortcut.

I consider this not a bug/flaw in ido but ffap. Special-case particular
file names doesn't look like a good solution.

Leo

bug#7229: Aw: Re: bug#7229: Re: Re: Re: bug#7229: 23.1; ido guess and ffap bug

[Thibault Kruse]

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