Re: find-file-project

[Stephen Leake]

Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Stefan,
>
> On 09/18/2015 08:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> Of course, project-find-file could wrap the backend's completion table
>> so as to add its own `category' info to the meatadata, but
>> it's cumbersome.
>
> Getting back to the question of the new category, do you think
> `project-file' is a good enough name?
>
> Could we want to reuse it for non-project, or non-file completions, in
> the future?
>
> Here's the basic patch that I want to install, which should be enough
> to introduce the feature in 25.1 (to make project.el reasonably
> interesting at least for some fraction of users).

This does not address the issue of duplicate file names in the path,
which I think is important.

For example:

$ address@hidden address@hidden find /Projects/emacs/master/lisp/ -name 
"locate.el"
/Projects/emacs/master/lisp/cedet/ede/locate.el
/Projects/emacs/master/lisp/locate.el

Attached is my implementation of locate-uniquified-file, which addresses
this. That can be used to implement project-find-file.

It uses a "path iterator" object, to avoid the issue of recursive
path vs non-recursive path.

I have tests for these as well, if you are interested.

-- 
-- Stephe

uniquify-files.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp

path-iterator.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp