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Re: make project--find-in-file generic, add interactive filename to proj


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: make project--find-in-file generic, add interactive filename to project-find-file
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 16:11:51 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

> But in the current use case, the "filename at point" will almost always
> _not_ be in the completion table. And it may even have several expansions,
> not just one. Because it's only a part of the file name: maybe it's the base
> name, or maybe it doesn't even have an extension.

So, we want to check it only if it's actually returned.  Sounds right.

>> This would also allow users to replace this function with one which
>> handles DEFAULT differently (e.g. inserting it as initial-input but
>> pre-selected so that delete-selection-mode deletes it in many cases).
> I'm not sure that delete-selection-mode is the answer:

It's not an answer, it's an alternative UI (which is the standard in
pretty much every other GUI application).


        Stefan



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