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

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Message #166 received at 58447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>,
 58447 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#58447: [PATCH] In project-find-file, add absolute file name
 to history
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:20:47 +0200

On 15/12/2022 19:24, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> But please also note that its value 'project--read-file-absolute'
>>> is also broken.  It asks confirmation for re-visiting even absolute
>>> filenames, because currently 'C-x p f' adds abbreviated filenames,
>>> but confirmation checks for absolute.
>> Does the breakage show itself only when you add a history entry using one
>> value of project-read-file-name-function and then try to look it up when
>> using another value of project-read-file-name-function?
>>
>> If so, that's probably bearable enough for now (people don't really change
>> this value often). Fixing it will require resolving the abbreviation
>> situation. And we might as well switch to relative names in project-files
>> first.
> Visiting with 'C-x C-f' adds an abbreviated file name to the history.
> So it looks strange that 'C-x p f M-p' doesn't understand that it's
> absolute even though it's abbreviated.

Fair enough.

Can we do something with it, though, without piping all-files through 
#'expand-file-name?

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