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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 04.10.2021 17:06, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> Manuel Uberti <manuel.uberti@inventati.org> writes:
>
> > 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?
>
> Right, they probably had their reasons for doing that - perhaps it was
> just easier - but it sounds like something that we would want to
> avoid.

Yes, early on I have put it as one of the goals -- to avoid manual cache 
invalidation by the user; that's just not nice. And the user might 
forget to do it, or even not know about this duty (most other editors do 
not require manual cache management like that).

'C-u' seems fine. Now let's decide what kind of behavior we actually 
want from it.