From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 18:33:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k2thz0dw.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <55BA5BDD.1080009@yandex.ru> (Dmitry Gutov's message of "Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:16:13 +0300")
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
> On 07/30/2015 06:29 PM, Stephen Leake wrote:
>
>> The point of a "project backend" is that it knows _everything_ about the
>> project. No stray hooks for users to pervert things.
>
> The problem is I (and others) have a lot of Elisp projects which don't
> adhere to some particular structure. No particular project files,
> aside from a .git repo, and maybe Makefile, or maybe some other -file.
>
> It's not even easy to identify it: maybe there are some .el files in
> the root directory, but they might all be in a subdirectory.
>
> I want to support this use case.
Ok.
What does "support" mean here?
If the elisp project backend just used load-path as project-search-path,
what desired functionality would you lose?
You have talked about limiting xref-find-regexp to some subset of the
files that are visible thru load-path; can you give a concrete
use case for that?
>> I would write the vc implementation of project-search-path to return a
>> flat list of all the directories under the vc root.
>
> The flat list is really out of the question. It really goes against my
> intuition and every project backend will have to implement the logic
> of producing this flat list based on some roots and a list of ignores.
Well, we obviously disagree; every project manager _I've_ worked with
already produces a flat list.
I don't understand why you are so dead set against supporting those
project managers.
As long as I have the ability to override sufficient project and xref
features so I can write backends for the project managers I use, I'm ok.
It would be nice if more of the utilities were able to handle flat
paths, but I can always re-implement them.
> We won't be able to use rgrep on the resulting directories,
You can use grep; what's wrong with that?
> but we'd still have to handle ignored files.
That's no harder with a flat path than with a recursive path.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-30 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-28 11:31 cl-defgeneric vs random funcall in project.el Stephen Leake
2015-07-28 15:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-28 23:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-29 0:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-07-29 1:00 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-29 1:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-29 14:24 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-29 19:54 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 7:04 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-30 11:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 15:29 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-30 15:37 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-30 16:10 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 23:25 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-30 17:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-30 23:33 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2015-07-31 0:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-07-31 14:36 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-31 22:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-01 10:21 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-01 12:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-01 14:20 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-01 16:49 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-01 19:08 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-04 19:59 ` João Távora
2015-08-04 20:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-04 22:43 ` João Távora
2015-08-04 23:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-10 1:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-10 3:07 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-10 8:45 ` João Távora
2015-08-10 16:50 ` Stephen Leake
2015-08-10 19:38 ` João Távora
2015-08-10 18:07 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-10 19:21 ` João Távora
2015-08-10 19:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-10 19:47 ` João Távora
2015-08-10 19:55 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-10 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-07 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-07 15:32 ` Dmitry Gutov
2015-08-07 17:36 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-08-05 7:02 ` Stephen Leake
2015-07-30 21:31 ` Stefan Monnier
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