From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
Cc: 43925@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43925: 28.0.50; fido-mode can't find-file further back than ~/
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2021 00:07:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eed8uhk1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r1q43hma.fsf@gmx.us> (rasmus@gmx.us's message of "Sun, 11 Oct 2020 17:30:21 +0200")
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to replace ido with fido.
>
> One heuristic that I miss from ido is the ability to easily get to
> root via find(ing)-file.
>
> In particular, from emacs -q, I might do something like this
>
> (let ((default-directory "~/")) (fido-mode)
> (call-interactively 'find-file) ;; click
> <backspace><backspace> to get to root )
>
> Being an ido-user, I would expect to be able to go to /home/ by
> clicking backspace and then to root. But I doesn’t work with fido.
>
> I don’t know if I have missed some obvious configuration-step here? I
> looked through the customization groups of both icomplete and
> minibuffer.
>
> The attached patch expand the file-name if it is “~/”.
>
> I am not really familiar with this part of Emacs so I am not sure it’s
> the right way to go about it. In particular, I am really not sure
> whether the internal functions (e.g. ‘icomplete--field-beg’) are used
> correctly.
>
>
> Aside: Another annoyance with fido is that $HOME isn’t being
> abbreviated
> to “~” when browsing from root. E.g.
>
> (let ((default-directory "/home/")) (fido-mode)
> (call-interactively 'find-file) ;; now select your username )
> I would like “/home/$USER” to be abbreviated to “~” (like ido) to
> conserve space.
>
> Any ideas as to where such a change migh be injected to fido? I
> didn’t see an obvious place.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Rasmus
Thanks for the report and sorry for the long delay. Indeed it would be
nice to have this in fido. I remember this behaviour in ido, too. I've
tried your patch and I don't have anything against it, so feel free to
push it if you want. The second idea is also welcome, but I don't know
where to put it either. Maybe in a fido-specific post-command hook that
adds the string "~/" to the input. Then the current "rfn-shadow"
behaviour in icomplete.el would do the rest.
João
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-11 15:30 bug#43925: 28.0.50; fido-mode can't find-file further back than ~/ Rasmus
2021-06-11 23:07 ` João Távora [this message]
2021-11-12 8:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-13 11:08 ` bug#43925: " Rasmus
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