From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
To: sbaugh@catern.com, 66260@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66260: 29.0.92; project.el should support copying a file path relative to the project root
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2023 01:44:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15010505-0b2f-5dc3-e16a-228183779d43@gutov.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875y3t2827.fsf@catern.com>
On 29/09/2023 02:26, sbaugh@catern.com wrote:
> When communicating with others, it is often useful to copy a file path
> to the current file which is relative to the project root. For example
> I'd rather send someone the path lisp/progmodes/project.el than
> ~/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/progmodes/project.el.
>
> project.el should have a way to copy this file path.
>
> Almost good enough is:
>
> C-x p f ;; project-find-file
> M-n ;; next-history-element
> C-k ;; kill-line
>
> but with project--read-file-cpd-relative, if all the files in
> project-files start with a common-parent-directory which is a
> subdirectory of project-root, the resulting file path will not be
> relative to the project-root but to the subdirectory.
A problem with modifying the above function's behavior like that is that
sometimes it is passed a wider range of file names, where not all of
them are inside the project root (M-x project-or-external-find-file).
> Maybe the thing to do is just make project--read-file-cpd-relative use
> project-root instead of calculating a common-parent-directory? I would
> be happy to make that patch if that's acceptable. I think that's
> probably the best option.
>
> Alternatively, it might be cool if there was a variation on:
>
> C-x C-j ;; dired-jump
> M-0 ;; digit-argument
> w ;; dired-copy-filename-as-kill
>
> (which copies an absolute path) to instead copy a project-root-relative
> path.
This is unfortunately less discoverable, but sounds good otherwise.
Regarding the potential binding (discussed further downthread), I have
no opinion: copying the relative name doesn't happen too often for me,
and when it does, I can usually do that from the VC-Dir buffer (where
the file in question would usually be 'edited'). Should we add 'w' to
vc-dir-mode too?
'C-x p w' does make sense as such, but it would be unfortunate if we
find a more important command later which fits the 'w' mnemonics. Maybe
'C-x p W' would be a more conservative choice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-01 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-28 23:26 bug#66260: 29.0.92; project.el should support copying a file path relative to the project root sbaugh
2023-09-29 6:57 ` Juri Linkov
2023-09-30 13:50 ` sbaugh
2023-09-30 14:47 ` Eshel Yaron via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-09-30 15:17 ` sbaugh
2023-10-01 22:44 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2023-10-02 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-02 6:53 ` Juri Linkov
2023-10-02 11:46 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-03 20:49 ` sbaugh
2023-10-03 21:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-10-02 11:13 ` Rudolf Adamkovič via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-10-21 13:13 ` sbaugh
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