Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files

[Rudolf Schlatte]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>   This is the package I'm working on. It provides a command to jump to a
>>   related file among existing candidates. It features a Domain-Specific
>>   Language (DSL) to describe the relation between files. For Emacs core,
>>   it would look like this
>
> I have not looked in detail at your proposal, but it seems to aim to
> cover a superset of what's supported by `find-sibling-file` and
> `ff-find-other-file`, which is great.
>
> But I keep dreaming of a tool that doesn't require *any* setup at all.
> In my ideal world, from a `MyComponent.js` I'd be able to type
> `M-x find-file-dwim RET .le RET` and that would jump to
> `MyComponent.less`.

Hmm, would `find-file' do the job if the future history (accessible via
`M-n') is filled with all candidate sibling files?