From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2023 10:40:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ier4jhnkosu.fsf@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r0kzyo93.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2023 16:50:32 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 13:33:29 +0200
>> Cc: sbaugh@janestreet.com, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
>>
>> On 09/11/2023 13:27, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> >> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 13:05:09 +0200
>> >> Cc: sbaugh@janestreet.com, 66993@debbugs.gnu.org
>> >> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
>> >>
>> >> And what happens after the restart? The list needs to be recovered.
>> >
>> > Why does it need to be recovered? Isn't it built on-the-fly anyway?
>> > Is this just some kind of optimization?
>>
>> If we didn't need to read it after restart, there would be no point in
>> writing the list to disk.
>>
>> > I guess I don't understand well enough why this file exists and how it
>> > is used?
>>
>> Same reason as for savehist-file.
>
> It's a history of projects in the last session? Then it's one more
> reason to write the file only at exit, I guess?
This comparison to savehist-file actually makes me think: Why don't we
just make project--list into a history variable, and persist it like
savehist?
It would already be quite nice to have a history variable
project-history for project-prompter, I've been thinking about
implementing that. It would be convenient for:
- switching repeatedly between two projects
- running a project command accidentally outside a project and wanting
to run it in the most recently used project.
But then, if we have project-history, could the project file just be a
persisted project-history?
If we had this model, project-remember-project would be basically
(push project 'project-history)
project-forget-zombie-projects would naturally not be needed, because
any zombie projects wouldn't be visited as part of the project-history,
and so if the history was limited in size, they'd eventually just drop
off the end.
project-switch-project would prompt for anything on project-history.
I think it simplifies things quite a lot!
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-11-07 21:28 bug#66993: [PATCH] project.el: avoid asking user about project-list-file lock Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 0:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:06 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 7:46 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 14:52 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 15:44 ` Michael Albinus
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:26 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 13:56 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:41 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 17:05 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 17:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 20:43 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 16:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 18:01 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-09 19:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-10 12:48 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-15 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 15:36 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 16:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-08 21:04 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 6:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-09 11:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-09 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-15 15:40 ` Spencer Baugh [this message]
2023-11-15 20:49 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-18 1:41 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-18 15:48 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 15:56 ` sbaugh
2023-11-18 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-18 23:10 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 6:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-19 14:54 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-19 14:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-20 2:05 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-20 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-19 14:33 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2023-11-19 19:38 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-20 1:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 21:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 13:58 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-11-08 15:25 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-11-08 21:14 ` Dmitry Gutov
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