From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files
Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:45:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgfdw1p1.fsf@dataswamp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvh71lqgze.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> But I keep dreaming of a tool that doesn't require *any*
> setup at all. In my ideal world, from a `MyComponent.js` I'd
> be able to type `M-x find-file-dwim RET .le RET` and that
> would jump to `MyComponent.less`.
>
> Or from `/opt/emacs-27/lisp/subr.el` I'd type `M-x
> find-file-dwim RET 28 RET` and that'd jump to
> `/opt/emacs-28/lisp/subr.el`.
>
> Maybe also:
>
> /foo/lisp/toto.el + test => /foo/tests/lisp/toto.el
> /foo/bar/lisp/toto.el + baz => /foo/bazaar/toto.el
> /foo/lisp/toto.el + te/-te => /foo/test/lisp/toto-tests.el
One would then have several algorithms all intended to find
one file from another, but using different methods, and the
DWIM algorithm would try them one by one ...
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-06 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-05 20:51 Comparison of tools to search for related files Damien Cassou
2022-09-06 4:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-06 4:45 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2022-09-06 12:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-09-06 7:22 ` Rudolf Schlatte
2022-09-06 13:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-06 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 6:37 ` Damien Cassou
2022-10-06 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-06 16:50 ` Felician Nemeth
2022-10-13 7:20 ` Damien Cassou
2022-10-14 21:24 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-17 18:34 ` Damien Cassou
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