From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, 62621@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62621: 29.0.60; uniquify can't make buffers unique based on things other than filename
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 10:14:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iera5vyinqo.fsf@janestreet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83bkgefvp6.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2023 16:51:01 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>> Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, 62621@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2023 08:46:00 -0400
>>
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> Here's concretely the diff I would apply. This makes uniquify.el mention a
>> >> function from project.el. Is that OK?
>> >
>> > No.
>>
>> I figured. So now you see the issue with the symbolic approach.
>
> No, I don't. Not a significant problem, anyway, and not why it's
> different from using a function.
>
>> If the defcustom just takes a function, though, that solves the
>> dependency issue. Because the user's config handles taking the function
>> from project.el and putting it in the variable from uniquify.el.
>
> Ease of implementation is an important factor, but the ease of using
> Emacs takes precedence. So saying that some implementation
> alternative should be taken only because it is easier is not a winning
> argument.
I agree.
> And I don't really understand how this will work in practice: if the
> user-defined function is supposed to be in effect only for buffers
> under project.el,
The transform is supposed to be in effect for all buffers, and
internally it runs some code to decide whether to change the buffer
name.
> how is this different from using symbols?
I can't contrast that to "using symbols" because I just don't understand
what you mean by "using symbols".
Is the diff I posted what you mean by "using symbols", or did you mean
something else?
>> >> > If the symbolic values are specific to project, simply let-bind
>> >> > uniquify-dirname-transform to the value of the appropriate project.el
>> >> > defcustom when project.el calls uniquify.
>> >>
>> >> These customizations are in effect all the time, not just when the user
>> >> is calling a project.el command. e.g. rename-buffer triggers uniquify.
>> >
>> > Then you can set the buffer-local value of uniquify-dirname-transform
>> > in the project.el buffers. Would that solve the problem?
>>
>> The buffers it should affect are all file-visiting buffers. project.el
>> doesn't currently have any code which runs for every new buffer. I
>> guess we've considered adding that, but I'm not sure this is a good
>> reason...
>
> I'm sure this can be resolved, quite easily, actually. So I don't
> think I understand what you are trying to say here.
>
>> > default-directory of a file-visiting buffer doesn't change.
>>
>> I don't think that's true. If I open ~/.emacs.d/init.el then (cd "/")
>> then default-directory in that file-visiting buffer is / instead of
>> ~/.emacs.d
>
> You can shoot yourself in the foot if you like, but why would you?
I agree this is fairly useless but (info "(emacs) File Names") at least
mentions using M-x cd in the context of file-visiting buffers:
When you visit a file, Emacs sets ‘default-directory’ in the visiting
buffer to the directory of its file. When you create a new buffer that
is not visiting a file, via a command like ‘C-x b’, its default
directory is usually copied from the buffer that was current at the time
(*note Select Buffer::). You can use the command ‘M-x pwd’ to see the
value of ‘default-directory’ in the current buffer. The command ‘M-x
cd’ prompts for a directory’s name, and sets the buffer’s
‘default-directory’ to that directory (doing this does not change the
buffer’s file name, if any).
Nevertheless, I would be happy to make uniquify use default-directory
instead, it will change how this behaves but it's probably OK. I can do
that in a separate bug.
> Anyway, are we still trying to reach some goal, or are we just trying
> to counter each other's arguments?
I'm not trying to counter your arguments, I just don't understand what
you mean by "using symbols". I'm happy to have the configuration be
symbol-based but you said "No." to the approach I posted and I don't
know what other approach you are envisioning.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-02 17:37 bug#62621: 29.0.60; uniquify can't make buffers unique based on things other than filename Spencer Baugh
2023-04-02 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-02 21:59 ` Drew Adams
2023-04-02 18:25 ` Juri Linkov
2023-04-14 16:08 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-13 22:51 ` sbaugh
2023-07-14 6:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 11:28 ` sbaugh
2023-07-14 12:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 12:20 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-14 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 12:46 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-14 13:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 14:14 ` Spencer Baugh [this message]
2023-07-14 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-14 19:15 ` sbaugh
2023-07-15 5:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-15 6:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-18 0:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-18 1:37 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-18 16:03 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-19 2:47 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-19 6:56 ` Juri Linkov
2023-07-18 17:51 ` Juri Linkov
2023-07-19 2:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-14 16:31 ` Juri Linkov
2023-07-18 0:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-18 11:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 2:22 ` Dmitry Gutov
2023-07-19 12:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-19 12:31 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-19 13:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-21 13:34 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-21 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-22 18:00 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-24 19:18 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-07-26 15:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-08-03 11:54 ` Spencer Baugh
2023-08-03 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
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