unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Juris <juris788999344@outlook.com>,
	"help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: project.el project-find-files and symlinks
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:10:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbaa5b9f-0db7-7f26-e49c-9326936df5b6@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <HE1PR0802MB2377F25A69497F6D41075307D5339@HE1PR0802MB2377.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On 12.06.2021 21:10, Juris wrote:
> Thanks for the tip Dmitry, I did try this and it does solve my 
> complaint. The downside being that I have to manage a patches project.el 
> and track upstream changes manually. Surely some easy configuration 
> would be a welcome change but, I also understand your stance.
> 
>>
>> I suppose you'd also want the project-vc backend (e.g. in Git repos) 
>> to follow symlinks as well?
> 
> Hmmm, that would be yes.

If we wanted to add an option, could you 'M-x report-emacs-bug' and 
describe the feature in more detail?

That is, steps to create an example directory, current and desired 
behaviors.

Bonus points for describing how the 'vc' project backend currently 
behaves with such a dir.



      reply	other threads:[~2021-06-17 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-21 11:57 project.el project-find-files and symlinks Juris Bune
2021-05-21 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2021-05-24  1:01 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-06-12 18:10   ` Juris
2021-06-17 13:10     ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=fbaa5b9f-0db7-7f26-e49c-9326936df5b6@yandex.ru \
    --to=dgutov@yandex.ru \
    --cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
    --cc=juris788999344@outlook.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).