RE: [Ecb-list] Annoying 'Alias for C:' message

[Jesper N. <je...@nn...>]

Ok, good that you cleared things up Klaus! :-)

I wasn't very familiar with this auto add feature. I will release ECB 1.61 =
soon so that this annoyance is eradicated.

/Jesper

> The tipp of Jesper can not work, because this option just
> decides if the whole path or only the root path of a not in
> ecb-source-path contained file is (temporally) added to
> ecb-source-path.
> Ok, some background: If you switch to a file which is resides
> nowhere in ecb-source-path than current ECB has problems
> with the auto. sync of it's windows, unfortunatelly not only
> for this file (this would be not a big problem) but from
> the time of this switch it will have problems to auto. sync.
> all files, i.e. even files which reside in ecb-source-path
> (and this is a problem).
> ECB 1.60 tries to fix this by adding these paths temporally
> to ecb-source-path (exactly: the user can decide if he wants
> to add this path also fur future sessions) and uses for this
> the function ecb-add-source-path which in turn asks for an
> alias for this path.
> This is what is annoying, i submit!
> In current CVS version of ECB the option=20
> ecb-add-only-root-path-for-not-matching-files has been replaced
> with the option ecb-add-path-for-not-matching-files.
> The whole mechanism is now much smarter:
> - If a file resides not in ecb-source-path the path is added auto.
>   at least temporally to ecb-source-path.
> - With the new option you can define=20
>   + Should the whole path ot only the root path be added? (Default is
>     yes)
>   + Should ECB ask you if the new path should be added for future session=
s
>     too (Default is no!)
> - You will never be asked for an alias for these temporally
>   paths (i suppose most af these paths should only be added tempo.)
> So, with this default setting of there is no annoying question you must
> answer in the minibuffer, all these paths are added only temporally to
> ecb-source-path, i.e. if you finish Emacs they go away.
> But ECB need this temporally path-adding for correct auto. sync!!!
> I hope we an release soon ECB 1.61 so this annoying behavior goes away.
> If you can't wait you can get CVS ECB. It should be also stable
> (except the new cycle-features which have still some light bugs; but
> they will be fixed soon).
> Does this help?
> Klaus
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petter M=C3=A5hl=C3=A9n
> To: Jesper Nordenberg
> Cc: ecb...@li...
> Sent: 1/31/02 1:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [Ecb-list] Annoying 'Alias for C:' message=20
> Thanks for the quick response!
> Unfortunately, it doesn't solve the problem. What I do is:
> 1. start emacs
> 2. ecb-activate
> 3. C-xC-f ~/.emacs
> 4. ECB asks me to add an alias for C:/My Documents (which is the same as
> ~)
> Any other clues? I attached my .emacs, if that helps.
> / Petter
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jesper Nordenberg [mailto:je...@nn...]
> > Sent: den 31 januari 2002 13:02
> > To: pet...@ch...
> > Cc: ecb...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [Ecb-list] Annoying 'Alias for C:' message=20
> >=20
> >
> > > First, thanks for a great tool. ECB does wonders for my
> > productivity when
> > > working with Emacs.
> >=20
> > Thanks.
> >
> > > However, since upgrading to 1.60, I have been annoyed by
> > > the fact that whenever I open a file that is not on a source
> > path (such as
> > > .emacs, or actually most of the files on my system), ECB asks
> > me what alias
> > > I want for C:. And this also happens without actually putting the
> input
> > > focus in the minibuffer, and for some reason, C-o seems to skip the
> > > minibuffer, meaning I have to click in the minibuffer to get there.
> > > My impression is that the problem is ecb-current-buffer-sync,
> > which calls
> > > ecb-add-source-path. Would it be possible/is it already
> > possible to turn off
> > > this behaviour? I only want to update the source paths explicitly,
> and I
> > > still want to be able to open files outside of the source paths.
> >=20
> > Set the customization variable=20
> > ecb-add-only-root-path-for-not-matching-files to nil. In future
> > versions this will not be enabled by defualt.
> >=20
> > /Jesper Nordenberg
> >
> <<.emacs>>

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