Re: bug#12915: 24.2.50; Visiting a file via drag-and-drop should add it to the history of visited files

Re: bug#12915: 24.2.50; Visiting a file via drag-and-drop should add it to the history of visited files

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 12.01.2013 09:25, schrieb Chong Yidong:
> Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> The history of visited files should contain every visited
>>> file, regardless of the way it was visited (command line argument,
>>> drag-n-drop, menu item, C-x C-f...)
>>
>> ... and when the file is visited via bookmarks (e.g. `C-x r b foo
>> <RET>').  (I've just missed this feature).
>
> This feature is relatively easy to implement.
>
> I think it is best done by adding an optional argument `add-history' to
> `find-file' (and similar functions like `find-file-other-frame'), so
> that Lisp callers can specify to update `file-name-history' even if the
> file name was not read interactively.  Any objections?
>
>
>
>

Hi,

don't think files just used by programs should go into history. That might make history useless to a certain point.
Also it might slow down programs.

Cheers,

Andreas

Re: bug#12915: 24.2.50; Visiting a file via drag-and-drop should add it to the history of visited files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 10:21:25 +0100
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
> Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> don't think files just used by programs should go into history. That might make history useless to a certain point.
> Also it might slow down programs.

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