bug#44588: 28.0.50; project-find-file with thing at point

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 14.11.2020 17:19, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > On 12.11.2020 14:34, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> > > The doc string is trying to say that the string under point is the
> > > default -- it doesn't check that it matches an existing file.  I'll
> > > adjust the doc string.
> >
> > Well, the default _is_ (thing-at-point 'filename), though.
>
> Which just looks for a regexp, not whether it's a file that exists.

Right. But a file name doesn't have to describe an existing file to be a 
file name. One example: the argument to file-exists-p.

> > I have noticed that too often the picked up default is too long,
> > though. And that clutters up the prompt. Perhaps
> > project--completing-read-strict should shorten it with ellipsis to
> > some predefined width.
>
> It'd be pretty unusual for a prompt to elide bits of the string it's
> actually going to use.

Perhaps.

I wonder if others see the problem I described, and if so whether they 
have other suggestions.