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Re: Project support and completions


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Project support and completions
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 19:34:25 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 10:11:09 -0500
> 
> >> Normally, this should magically happen when you visit a file in that
> >> other project, at which point, your Emacs session has 2 projects active
> >> and the user will then, when using project-dependent operations from
> >> a buffer not explicitly linked to any project, choose which project to use.
> > I have just described a few messages ago why this logic will sometimes
> > misfire.
> 
> I'm not sure which case you're referring to, but I have no doubt it won't
> always do the right thing.  As mentioned, there is no single solution
> that will always do the right thing without reading the user's mind.
> But this solution should provide predictable behavior and when it
> doesn't automatically do what the user wants, it's easy for the user to
> instruct tell Emacs what she wants (i.e. by switching buffer).

Why not instruct Emacs without switching buffers?  That seems easy
enough, and eliminates an annoyance of the buffer switch.



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