Subject: Re: bug#72701: eglot crash when project-files-relative-names t

From: Ship Mints <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 13:04:23 -0400

Greetings, just want to make sure this fix doesn't get lost...

-Stephane

On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM Ship Mints <[email-masked]> wrote:

> project-files-relative-names was introduced a few months ago, so it's no
> surprise that there are some side effects when set.
>
> This affects the handler for workspace/didChangeWatchedFiles. The result
> is that dirs-to-watch...
>
>          (dirs-to-watch
>           (delete-dups (mapcar #'file-name-directory
>                                (project-files
>                                 (eglot--project server))))))
>
> ...is nil when project-files-relative-names is t, due to
> file-name-directory failing to parse the directories it was expecting. This
> results in file-readable-p failing with a nil dir:
>
>          (watch-dir (dir)
>            (when-let ((probe
>                        (and (file-readable-p dir)
>
> One solution which I've tested is simply the defensive:
>
>          (project-files-relative-names nil) ; add this
>          (dirs-to-watch
>           (delete-dups (mapcar #'file-name-directory
>                                (project-files
>                                 (eglot--project server))))))
>
> -Stephane
>