From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#5751: Strange behaviour of ff-find-other-file Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 21:25:54 -0400 Message-ID: <877fb4tj6l.fsf@users.sourceforge.net> References: <7B99D88E-806D-412D-8CCD-0EDB6CDF6588@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1472174780 31368 195.159.176.226 (26 Aug 2016 01:26:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 01:26:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: 5751@debbugs.gnu.org, Arne Schmitz To: Andrew Hyatt Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 26 03:26:16 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bd5uR-0007lo-A3 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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I think I understand what you are > saying, but I think we probably would both agree this is more of a > feature request than a bug. > > But I'm not sure it makes sense as a feature request - just because you > have foo.c and foo.h, it is dangerous to think they are related just > because they both exist as buffers. I frequently have multiple copies > of the same file open in different directories to work on different > issues - it would be a bug if ff-find-other-file started flipping > between two very different working directories. > > So, I'm closing this one as not a bug. I'm reopening, because I think this does make sense as a feature request. Generally foo.c and foo.h will be related if they are in the same "project", so probably the user will want the file to be found in this case. I think Emacs recently got some kind of "project API" thing, perhaps that can be used for this?