help with file not found hook

help with file not found hook

[pedz]

I'm trying to write a hook for the find-file-not-found-functions but I
may be way off course.

This is for OSF DCE which has a tree that is "backed" by a matching
tree (which can also be backed...)

So, if I try to find a file

  /a/b/BASE/c/d/e/f.c

that may not exist so the next place to look is

  /a/b/BASE/link/c/d/e/f.c

and after that

  /a/b/BASE/link/link/c/d/e/f.c

etc.

Questions:
  1) After I find the file, I currently set buffer-file-name to the
full path and then call insert-file-contents and return true.  Is that
what I should be doing?

  2) The problem I have is if I find the same file a second time, I
get a duplicate buffer.  I can check to see if such a buffer already
exists but what do I do if it does?

Thanks

Re: help with file not found hook

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

pedz <pedzsan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Questions:
>   1) After I find the file, I currently set buffer-file-name to the
> full path and then call insert-file-contents and return true.  Is that
> what I should be doing?

I think you should call `find-alternate-file' with the new name.  That
should take care of everything (including running the hook again).



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher