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bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist
From: |
Felician Nemeth |
Subject: |
bug#57325: 27.1; functions in ff-other-file-alist |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2022 10:46:22 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> 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?
>>
>> In my case, the related file of foo.toml is bar.json. From an extension
>> it is not possible to guess whether the related file is bar.json or
>> baz.json. find-file.el of Emacs 27.1 has this in the Commentary
>> section:
>>
>> ;; These functions must return a list consisting of the possible names of the
>> ;; corresponding file, with or without path.
>>
>> That's why I thought my function could return an absolute file name.
>
> If the returned list includes file names with leading directories,
> find-file.el strips the leading directories and uses the basename to
> match against.
I think that not how it works. Even if the attached file is in a
directory that contains a file named "hosts", when I
1. emacs -Q test.el
2. y
3. M-x eval-buffer RET
4. M-x ff-find-other-file RET
Emacs is going to switch to the buffer containing /etc/hosts.
> Another thing to clarify in the docs?
Playing with the implementation, I think that these functions shouldn't
return extensions. They should return file names.
test.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp
- 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, 2022/08/29
- 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 <=
- 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