Subject: Re: bug#12492: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; Open vc-dir buffer easier and faster)

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 00:51:12 +0200

On 25.02.2020 23:27, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>> C-x p d - project dir
>>
>> That sounds more like "open Dired in the project's root".
> 
> Indeed, two commands compete for the same mnemonic key 'd':
> Dired and VC-Dired.

And only one of the is likely to use the project.el functions.

>>> C-x p g - project grep
>>
>> Bind project-find-regexp to it?
> 
> Not sure since project-find-regexp is not asynchronous as grep.

All the more reason for someone to work on that. And the former has 
other benefits.

>> And a command that opens VC-Dir in the VC root, wouldn't use the project.el
>> infractructure. Correct me if I'm wrong about that.
> 
> You know more about connection between project.el and VC.
> What I could do is only to count occurrences of the word "vc"
> in project.el: 39 occurrences.

VC is just one of project.el's backends. The main one among the 
built-ins, but that's not particularly important in this context.