Re: find-file-project

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 09/18/2015 08:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Of course, project-find-file could wrap the backend's completion table
> so as to add its own `category' info to the meatadata, but
> it's cumbersome.

Indeed.

> We should try and unify the metadata returned by the completion-tables
> and the metadata returned by the completion-at-point-functions (or
> provided via completion-extra-properties).

Yup. We should probably do that sooner rather than later.

> Ah, I see.  But that means all the files are returned as one flat list
> (without using completion-boundaries).  Might be a good idea.

Ouch. That means I really misunderstand how completion-boundaries work.

> > > [ I did have some earlier version of partial completion match "**/file"
> > > to "foo/bar/file.el", but the current code doesn't have that, and even
> > > less so without a "**".  ]
> > Why not?
>
> Couldn't find that 25th hour!

Well, I meant that if earlier code already did it, you had to remove it. 
But I guess there was more work to be done, to make it good enough for 
public.