Subject: Re: bug#47799: 28.0.50; Default `project-files' implementation doesn't work with quoted filenames

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 02:31:57 +0300

On 17.05.2021 02:22, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> Or another, more simplistic approach would be to have the method 
> project-files-filtered return file names relative to the root (always, 
> or when called with a certain argument). And then pass the root (and the 
> connection/host) in the default-directory var. Then change 
> xref-matches-in-files to use default-directory if the values in FILES 
> are not absolute.

Looking at the previous discussion, this actually seems very close to 
what you, Philipp, suggested on 19.04.2021.

So above are my subsequent thoughts on how it can be implemented without 
requiring much change to the API (though complicating the 
implementations a bit).