Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 55ec674: * lisp/multifile.el: New file, extracted from etags.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 28.12.2018 1:45, Juri Linkov wrote:

> Rather it completes on path components too, not only on file names.
> Makes more difficult to match part of the file name when the same substring
> occurs in the path.

But base file names can also have duplicates, right?

> Either prefix multifile- or project- is fine, but not both at the same time.
> Or better just shorten to multi-.  We already have multi-isearch (not
> supporting project yet).

OK, let me put it another way: "multifile" is just a package that 
implements a particular UI. It is in no way synonymous with "project". 
Maybe a better name for it would be something like bufferloop 
(suggestions welcome).

> > Does M-x project-find-regexp work in the same situation?
>
> I see that M-x project-find-regexp is like occur, so a better name would be
> M-x project-occur.

I can see where you're coming from, but we've already discussed that it 
has different behavior from Occur. And it uses different data sources.

I agree that some unification might be in order, but naming things the 
same won't cut it.