bug#58447: [PATCH] In project-find-file, add absolute file name to history

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 at 21:05, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 27.10.2022 20:48, Augusto Stoffel wrote:
>>> Can it handle the absolute values there?
>> The completing read reads a file name, the relname; if it's relative,
>> then it's expanded to an absolute name (the absname).  If for whatever
>> reason the relname was already absolute, then absname will be equal to
>> relname (what else could you do, right?)
>
> The completion table won't match absolute names. But okay,
> require-match is nil there, so any arbitrary input will be accepted.

Right.

> But what if that absolute name comes from a different project?

In my patch it will just find that file.  Alternatively we could throw
an error, but I don't see a point in doing that.