bug#62776: 30.0.50; 'project-find-file' ignoring 'file-name-history'

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19/04/2023 08:54, Daniel Mendler wrote:
> On 4/19/23 03:54, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > It's possible that vertico--history-hash is confused by our manipulation
> > of the history entries -- like how they are stored as absolute file
> > names now (bug#58447).
> Yes, that's right. A tweak to the hash manipulation would be needed. On
> the other hand we cannot handle all special cases in
> vertico--history-hash. For such cases one can set the
> vertico-sort-function or vertico-sort-override-function variables per
> command.

Right. I wasn't sure what the special-ness of this case is, though.

At first I figured it might be because of the local binding for the 
history variable (this is something we changed recently, after all).

But now it just looks like if the variable is 'file-name-history', the 
hash only takes the first segment of file names from it. E.g., when 
history looked like this at the beginning:

  ("lisp/progmodes/ruby-mode.el")

the hash at the end is:

  #s(hash-table size 1 test equal rehash-size 1.5 rehash-threshold 
0.8125 data ("lisp/" 0))

I'm guessing this change is responsible for that: 
https://github.com/minad/vertico/commit/0bc58baba1904cefefccc1cd5510d2e942c181f1

Perhaps there is some straightforward way to determine whether the 
current completion table stops at separators or not, to be used here.