bug#12915: bug#3909: 23.1.50; Drag drop events in command history?

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

>> 1) To add an optional parameter to `find-file' to make it push the
>> filename onto `file-name-history'.  Then we could adjust callers
>> according to taste: I think drag and drop and command line arguments
>> should land on the history.
>
> I don't think anyone would object to such patch:

[...]

> @@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@ command-line-1
>                                 (command-line-normalize-file-name name)
>                                 dir))
>                          (buf (find-file-noselect file)))
> +                   (add-to-history 'file-name-history (abbreviate-file-name 
> file))

I thought it might be nice to have these "extra" additions to
`file-name-history' in one central place (in case we decide to make it
optional).

But I guess we could just have a function like
`add-to-file-name-history' if we wanted to future-proof that?

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