From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:45:30 +0200 Message-ID: <87zgfdw1p1.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <87tu5lv92m.fsf@cassou.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="26083"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:7OV6KqbyWbZE2+mZ9f7/S40HnN4= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 06 06:49:41 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 1oVQWr-0006a9-8K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:49:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37860 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVQWp-0002yq-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:49:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37666) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVQT6-0001Me-6O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:57772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oVQSz-00028Q-KI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oVQSv-0001Zr-JH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:45:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:294778 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > > But I keep dreaming of a tool that doesn't require *any* > setup at all. In my ideal world, from a `MyComponent.js` I'd > be able to type `M-x find-file-dwim RET .le RET` and that > would jump to `MyComponent.less`. > > Or from `/opt/emacs-27/lisp/subr.el` I'd type `M-x > find-file-dwim RET 28 RET` and that'd jump to > `/opt/emacs-28/lisp/subr.el`. > > Maybe also: > > /foo/lisp/toto.el + test => /foo/tests/lisp/toto.el > /foo/bar/lisp/toto.el + baz => /foo/bazaar/toto.el > /foo/lisp/toto.el + te/-te => /foo/test/lisp/toto-tests.el One would then have several algorithms all intended to find one file from another, but using different methods, and the DWIM algorithm would try them one by one ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal