Re: project-find-file: switch to include non-tracked files

[Manuel Uberti]

On 04/10/21 15:44, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> In projectile, they have:
>
>      (projectile-find-file &optional INVALIDATE-CACHE)
>
>      Jump to a project’s file using completion.
>      With a prefix arg INVALIDATE-CACHE invalidates the cache first.
>
> But their default mode of operation is to show all files, not just
> tracked ones, so I think they have more use for a cache.

At the top of project.el I see this:

;; * Reliably cache the list of files in the project, probably using
;;   filenotify.el (if supported) to invalidate.  And avoiding caching
;;   if it's not available (manual cache invalidation is not nice).

So maybe going for manual cache invalidation is not the best approach?

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