Re: elisp: Text-based file-chooser

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Larry,
>
> Larry Kohlman <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
>
>
>> Thanks. Just to see how that functions I changed the code to:
>>
>>  (defun my-file-browser ()
>>    (let ((fname (anything-c-read-file-name "AnyPrompt: ")))
>>        (message "FILENAME: %s" name)))
>>
>> Calling that yields the following error message:
>>
>> anything-compute-matches: error when processing source: 
>> Read file name (`C-.':Go to precedent level)
>
> Indeed, thanks to report.
>
> The problem is tramp that is not loaded.
> If you do as following, things should work as expected:
>
> emacs -Q
>
> In scratch buffer, eval:
>
> (add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/your/anything/files")
> (require 'anything-config)
> (require 'tramp)
> (defun my-file-browser ()
>   (let ((fname (anything-c-read-file-name "AnyPrompt: ")))
>     (message "FILENAME: %s" name)))
> (my-file-browser)
>
>
>> Next I used the Anything menu (Anything->Find Files) to see if Anything
>> would work when run normally. It did. On a hunch I tried the above code
>> again and it also worked. Then I checked and found that Anything->Find
>> Files doesn't even invoke anything-c-read-file-name. After that I exited
>> Emacs and was able to repeat everything several times in a row.
>
> Yes, because anything-find-files load tramp, but
> anything-c-read-file-name doesn't.
> I will fix it as soon as possible.

Ok fixed, you can check it out on anything git repo.

>> Ah, well, mysterious things happen when you use functions that weren't
>> intended for external use. I'll just mess around with this until it
>> works.
>
> What mysterious things?
> Can you give examples?

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