Re: find-file-dwim.el

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Michael Albinus wrote:

> If you are saying something on a public ML, be prepared
> people respond. Or be quiet.

The socialization process is in full swing.

Suggestion: Apply the rules to everyone equally, or what will
happen is everyone will start to behave like that.

Anyway, this whole idea - make the collection smaller, by
recomputing it - I realized, if you gonna do that, why not do
it every time?

Like below, instead of `minibuffer-complete'.

Maybe I misunderstood the idea? I'm over discussing things on
this list, but use e-mail by all means if this is something
you would like to discuss.

;;; -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
;;
;; this file:
;;   https://dataswamp.org/~incal/emacs-init/minibuffer-complete-files.el
;;
;; (keymap-global-set "M-8" #'minibuffer-complete-files)

(require 'cl-lib)

(defun string-to-dir (s)
  (if (file-directory-p s)
      s
    (let ((new (replace-regexp-in-string "\\(.*/\\).*$" "\\1" s)))
      (when (file-directory-p new)
        new) )))

(defun minibuffer-complete-files ()
  (interactive)
  (let* ((beg (minibuffer-prompt-end))
         (end (point-max))
         (str (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))
         (dir (string-to-dir str))
         (col (when dir (directory-files dir t)))
         (abr (mapcar #'abbreviate-file-name col))
         (all (cl-union col abr)) )
    (when all
      (completion-in-region (minibuffer--completion-prompt-end) end all) )))

(provide 'minibuffer-complete-files)

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