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Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Comparison of tools to search for related files |
Date: |
Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:45:30 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> 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`.
>
> Or from `/opt/emacs-27/lisp/subr.el` I'd type `M-x
> find-file-dwim RET 28 RET` and that'd jump to
> `/opt/emacs-28/lisp/subr.el`.
>
> Maybe also:
>
> /foo/lisp/toto.el + test => /foo/tests/lisp/toto.el
> /foo/bar/lisp/toto.el + baz => /foo/bazaar/toto.el
> /foo/lisp/toto.el + te/-te => /foo/test/lisp/toto-tests.el
One would then have several algorithms all intended to find
one file from another, but using different methods, and the
DWIM algorithm would try them one by one ...
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