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23.1.50; Drag drop events in command history?

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>, 12915 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 3909 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#3909: bug#12915: bug#3909: 23.1.50; Drag drop events in command history?
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 01:32:05 +0300

> 1) To add an optional parameter to `find-file' to make it push the
> filename onto `file-name-history'.  Then we could adjust callers
> according to taste: I think drag and drop and command line arguments
> should land on the history.

I don't think anyone would object to such patch:

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 456c01efd1..46252e7b93 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -2391,6 +2391,7 @@ command-line-1
 				  (command-line-normalize-file-name name)
 				  dir))
 			   (buf (find-file-noselect file)))
+		      (add-to-history 'file-name-history (abbreviate-file-name file))
 		      (setq displayable-buffers (cons buf displayable-buffers))
                       ;; Set the file buffer to the current buffer so
                       ;; that it will be used with "--eval" and

And the same for drag and drop.

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