Re: Update filename history after several actions

[Christoph Conrad]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs as well.

Hello Richard,

> Would you like it if we changed find-file-noselect to put its argument
> into the history if it is not present?

There should be all functions in the file-name-history that were edited
in emacs, i.e. there were intentionally loaded t be edited or viewed by
the user. So adding all file names at the level you suggest is not the
right way, cause find-file-noselect can't decide whether the file was
loaded to be edited or e.g. to be processed automatically.

I suggest to add the file-name-history inclusion of file names at a more
"upper" level in the call stack, as a result of a user oriented task.

Best wishes,
  Christoph