Re: question regarding my emacs package

[ram <chat@rj95.be>]

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got around to this. new repo is here: https://github.com/gitrj95/trail.el

renamed from breadcrumbs to trail, as per joao's suggestion, and changed the semantics quite a bit. i had some questions:

-   i'm supporting "middle" truncation of the file path strings. i couldn't find this in emacs libs, but for this purpose, i found truncation at the suffix or prefix less useful than truncation in the middle. ie, i want to know the file name and extension almost always and the root directory (especially in a code context) almost always
-   i'm using markers to track relative positions instead of absolute positions. i found that, especially in the code context, i wanted the trail-mark to "know" that i've added code before it, but still point to the function prototype i marked before instead of sliding. markers don't seem to be persistable, so i had the absolute positions of the markers stored in the ring that can be persisted, but default to corresponding markers in an associated, private ring if those exist. on hook for buffer close, the absolute positions are updated with the marker details. this seems like a fairly common thing to want to do, so i'd hope that i didn't reinvent the wheel. again, i couldn't find anything

also:

-   checkdoc passes
-   tested on emacs 27, 28, and 29

let me know if you have any questions, and please send over the fsf copyright agreement when you have the chance

looking forward


------- Original Message -------
On Friday, June 16th, 2023 at 10:01 PM, ram <chat@rj95.be> wrote:


> what versions does this impact? i’ve never run into this on >=27.1? can someone confirm?
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 10:28 AM, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Madhu <enometh@meer.net> writes:
> > 
> > > [Question about cl-defstruct]
> > 
> > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp
> > > (buffer-file-name))
> > > make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb--cmacro((make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb))
> > > apply(make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb--cmacro
> > > (make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb) nil)
> > > macroexp--compiler-macro(make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb--cmacro
> > > (make-breadcrumbs--breadcrumb))
> > > ```
> > 
> > @ram: AFAIU you need to use a different slot name. This one will cause
> > problems due to a bug in Emacs.
> > 
> > Michael.
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