From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:00:29 +0300 Message-ID: <835yi0k68i.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87tu5lv92m.fsf@cassou.me> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29485"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: damien@cassou.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 16:37:54 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVZi3-0007O9-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:37:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50342 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVZi2-0006MR-3J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 10:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56098) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVYCB-00069m-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:01:01 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57138) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVYCA-0003X0-Ni; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:00:50 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=Qt/1/NvpL/HZbyWHwD7O+/4kdUd3sKy0athZDg9E/XA=; b=mE96x/QsBY4F R2Gm6VB7WWNRh7SpBVCqENKh4nnvBYOt0f+UNbpfe5RKinvCyh0oDXdL/yR0yrNyAfI3FFtpkGi9d YD4NVsYWm/EZ70VNMKj98TEzzsIn+bIaPALvUKAVmeDalVm3W0KmC1laS79KmmSg+tA93Zeuy9lLz z1a1thxRCnAaoIg0au+iNz208XxKE4q+kRX72vzA1LqeMhdsC0vdag1bG+RxapWs9cLdYC3Ybxj/0 KX1evLgG7c8nL3qGFdLxY7UPC39jptc612i4/dazdIfmIaOk6Aat7ZKt8KwtpI5LVnWtiGWpAYFJg sFoW0d1D9KdhOQkdWkbXXA==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=4286 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVYC8-0006fU-2t; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 09:00:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:26:13 -0400) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:294788 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii , Lars Ingebrigtsen > > Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:26:13 -0400 > > Admittedly, I'm only thinking of the case where the target file already > exists (we can only find the target file by looking at the filesystem to > see which of the the many possible targets is meant), but it seems like > most of it should be doable. I think the case where the target file doesn't yet exist is not much less important than the other one. Features like these should support both.