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bug#58784: 28.2; project-buffers incorrect under let-bound default-direc
From: |
Sean Devlin |
Subject: |
bug#58784: 28.2; project-buffers incorrect under let-bound default-directory |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Nov 2022 12:39:18 -0400 |
Hi Dmitry,
> On Nov 3, 2022, at 9:18 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 02.11.2022 17:18, Sean Devlin wrote:
>
>>>> I think there’s still some fragility in the project-buffers function,
>>>> since any callers need to be careful not to bind default-directory. It
>>>> might be useful to call this out in the doc string or in the manual.
>>>
>>> I suppose it could use improvement, but I'm not sure what phrasing would
>>> stop someone from making such a mistake. After all, I knew its
>>> implementation and made it anyway.
>>>
>>> Perhaps the docstring should simply say that the buffers are matched on the
>>> basis of their default-directory value. In the default implementation, that
>>> is (custom backends could choose their own strategy). Would that help?
>> Yeah, I think a high-level description of the default strategy would be
>> useful.
>> Thanks again for your help!
>
> I've added some clarification in 7d47651d01.
>
> Hopefully it makes things better, if not -- suggestions welcome.
>
> I'm going to close this in the meantime.
Thanks, and I saw the corresponding discussion on emacs-devel. Any version of
the proposed changes looks good to me. Feel free to close, and thanks again for
your help!