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28.0.50; How to create new file in project by project-find-file

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Message #44 received at 49204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Giap Tran <giaptx <at> mht.vn>, Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>,
 49204 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: Re: bug#49204: 28.0.50; How to create new file in project by
 project-find-file
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:29:43 +0300

On 20.07.2021 05:58, Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the 
Swiss army knife of text editors wrote:
> I haven't followed the discussion, so I might be off, but I think what
> is described above is something you can get simply by passing the
> appropriate value for `mustmatch` to `completing-read` and friends
> (including `read-file-name`).

Probably not: most third-party completion functions out there don't 
support any non-nil values of that argument other than t (or treat them 
like t).

corfu and vertico support 'confirm', but they're probably not popular 
enough yet to justify that choice.

And suppose we chose to use 'confirm', would a neutral prompt "Confirm" 
without clarification, as opposed to something like "File does not 
exist; Create?", be our best choice?

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