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23.1.50; Drag drop events in command history?

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
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 00:50:42 +0200

Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net> writes:

>> 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:

[...]

> @@ -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))

I thought it might be nice to have these "extra" additions to
`file-name-history' in one central place (in case we decide to make it
optional).

But I guess we could just have a function like
`add-to-file-name-history' if we wanted to future-proof that?

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