Control: retitle -1 emacs-goodies-el -- drop ff-paths.el Control: tag -1 + pending
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 01:25:41PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> Hi Reuben and Gerald,
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 22:52:20 +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >
> > The line:
> >
> > (bufname (buffer-name buf)) ; compute before uniquify hits!
> >
> > uses buf when it may not have been set to anything, which causes a
> > void-variable error.
>
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 03:13:33PM -0700, Gerald Turner wrote:
> > Package: emacs-goodies-el
> > Version: 35.12
> > Followup-For: Bug #773620
> >
> > This seems to become a problem since upgrading to emacs24.
> >
> > To reproduce it, in a clean emacs -q session:
> >
> > (require 'ff-paths)
> > (ff-paths-install)
> >
> > (setq debug-on-error t)
> >
> > C-x C-f /tmp/foo
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable buf)
> > find-file-using-paths-hook()
> > run-hook-with-args-until-success(find-file-using-paths-hook)
> > #[257 "\303\301!\203
> > funcall(#[257 "\303\301!\203
> > find-file-noselect("/tmp/foo" nil nil t)
> > find-file("/tmp/foo" t)
> > call-interactively(find-file nil nil)
> > command-execute(find-file)
>
> I assume this is still a problem in stable (stretch, Debian 9) through
> sid? The Debian Emacsen team has adopted emacs-goodies-el and is the
> process of transitioning from bundled .els to elpafied packages.
> Buggy addons with dead upstreams are being dropped. It would be nice
> to transition from a buggy dropped addons to ones that provide similar
> functionality.
>
> Do the built-in 'find-dired or 'find-name-dired provide the desired
> interface and functionality of 'ff-path, or would the following be an
> adequate substitute?
> https://packages.debian.org/buster/elpa-find-file-in-project
ff-paths hasn't been updated since 2010, and has serious outstanding
bugs. Ivy/counsel/swiper, helm, and find-file-in-project provide
usable, maintained alternatives to it. No reply to this bug for a
month. Dropping this package.
Cheers,
Nicholas
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