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bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2022 17:04:44 +0300 |
> From: Felician Nemeth <felician.nemeth@gmail.com>
> Cc: 57325@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2022 13:57:44 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > AFAICT, what you saw is the consequence of one basic problem:
> > ff-find-the-other-file is unprepared to deal with a function that
> > returns nil (instead of a list of file-name extensions to try). So it
> > tries to use that nil value as if it was a list of extensions, and the
> > result is basically random.
> >
> > It should be easy to make ff-find-the-other-file detect the nil value
> > and handle it as if it found no match for the current buffer's file.
> > Do you think this would be better? Or we could simply document that a
> > function in ff-other-file-alist must return a list of extensions.
> >
> > WDYT?
>
> I think extending the documentation to explain what is expected from the
> function is enough. It would have helped me.
I did that now.
> Also, when the function returns an absolute file name, then the
> returned file should be already opened, otherwise ff-find-other-file
> cannot find it.
Hmm... not sure how this is relevant. The function should return a
list of extensions, not a file name. What am I missing?
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/21
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/21
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/21
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/22
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/25
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/29
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/29
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/29
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/30
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/30
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Felician Nemeth, 2022/08/30
- bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/08/30