Re: find-file-project

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/17/2015 12:11 AM, Stephen Leake wrote:

> Is there documentation on this? The doc strings and elisp manual are not
> helpful.

It's unfortunately under-documented, so one would have to work from the 
existing examples in minibuffer.el

> > I don't understand. Can't Global return absolute file paths?
>
> Yes, it can. But they don't get returned from completing-read.
>
> You deleted too much context here, so I don't know what you are really
> asking.

The issue was about why the Global project type has to define its own 
find-file generic function.

> > > It would make sense to modify completing-read to be able to return
> > > meta-information with the completion. I looked at that briefly, and I
> > > have no idea how to go about it.
> >
> > It must be doable, but we can manage without it.
>
> Please provide code that shows how; I have no idea.

I haven't actually written any completion styles myself, so Stefan would 
be a better source on the whys and hows of it. But using 
completion-at-point has well-known advantages, so we really want to go 
this way.

If you get stuck, please push the WIP to the feature branch, and I'll 
try to work it out as well.