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[PATCH] In project-find-file, add absolute file name to history

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From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Subject: bug#58447: [PATCH] In project-find-file, add absolute file name to history
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:04:44 +0200

I'm copying Dmitry.

On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 22:13, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:29:24 +0200
>> 
>> `project-find-file' and related commands share their history with more
>> general commands like `find-file', so they should add the absolute file
>> name to history.  Currently, file names relative to the project root are
>> added.  The attached patch fixes this.
>
> Shouldn't project.el have its separate history of file names,

I'm not sure that's useful, but then the history items should be
absolute file names anyway.

> perhaps even a project-specific history?

This might make sense.

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