reopen 5751
tags 5751 - notabug
severity 5751 wishlist
retitle 5751 Let ff-find-other-file search other directories (in "project"?)
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Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry for the delay in response here. I think I understand what you are
> saying, but I think we probably would both agree this is more of a
> feature request than a bug.
>
> But I'm not sure it makes sense as a feature request - just because you
> have foo.c and foo.h, it is dangerous to think they are related just
> because they both exist as buffers. I frequently have multiple copies
> of the same file open in different directories to work on different
> issues - it would be a bug if ff-find-other-file started flipping
> between two very different working directories.
>
> So, I'm closing this one as not a bug.
I'm reopening, because I think this does make sense as a feature
request. Generally foo.c and foo.h will be related if they are in the
same "project", so probably the user will want the file to be found in
this case. I think Emacs recently got some kind of "project API" thing,
perhaps that can be used for this?
This makes more sense the original proposal, but I'm still not so sure. For example, how many projects have multiple directories with files called util.c? Probably quite a few. I think any assumptions we make here will be bound to cause problems.