Re: A project-files implementation for Git projects

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 20.09.2019 15:59, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> No, it cannot, because the events are lost before they reach the
> Emacs event queue.  Unless, that is, you mean by "handler" something
> that is outside Emacs, in which case I see no way for Emacs to control
> how such a "handler" behaves.

It could work by detecting a "congestion" before the event happens (by 
seeing that events fire up very quickly, so the queue must fill up 
soon). That wouldn't be 100% reliable, though.

> "Not feasible".  You are, in effect, saying that I have no real idea
> what I'm talking about.  And that's exactly the issue at hand.

I suppose that's possible. And if so, my apologies.

FWIW, before you wrote that "giving up" message, I figured we've reached 
the same page, more or less. Maybe I lack reading comprehension.

> Sorry, I can no longer afford discussions in which replies are posted
> after two, sometimes 3 or 4 days,

Sorry about that.

> and in which each of my arguments,
> no matter how minor, always gets contradicted with counter-arguments,

I've seen the same from your side. And if you see it as arguing, I see 
that as having to to explain stuff, sometimes multiple times, in 
different branches of this same thread.

Maybe you would prefer different levels of nesting, but they make 
reading things harder on my end, including when I also go back to 
re-read the messages in this discussion. I can try cutting out less 
context next time, but by how much?

> with context stripped so thoroughly that I need to go back 2, 3,
> sometimes even 4 messages back to even begin to understand how we
> arrived to that.  You never even _try_ to compromise, let alone see
> the issue from my POV.

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about here.

I *cannot* compromise by removing reliance on 'find' because we'll need 
it anyway. You complained about it for some reason, but also yourself 
acknowledged that it will remain necessary in certain cases.

What else is there to compromise on? Implement the file listing using 
Bzr and SVN as well? People are free to work on that, as long as no 
functionality is lost in the end, meaning proper fallback to 'find' (I 
suppose) when the tool can't support the necessary feature (extra 
ignores or whitelist) that the user requested.