bug#58447: [PATCH] In project-find-file, add absolute file name to history

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 15/12/2022 19:24, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > But please also note that its value 'project--read-file-absolute'
> > > is also broken.  It asks confirmation for re-visiting even absolute
> > > filenames, because currently 'C-x p f' adds abbreviated filenames,
> > > but confirmation checks for absolute.
> > Does the breakage show itself only when you add a history entry using one
> > value of project-read-file-name-function and then try to look it up when
> > using another value of project-read-file-name-function?
> >
> > If so, that's probably bearable enough for now (people don't really change
> > this value often). Fixing it will require resolving the abbreviation
> > situation. And we might as well switch to relative names in project-files
> > first.
> Visiting with 'C-x C-f' adds an abbreviated file name to the history.
> So it looks strange that 'C-x p f M-p' doesn't understand that it's
> absolute even though it's abbreviated.

Fair enough.

Can we do something with it, though, without piping all-files through 
#'expand-file-name?