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24.2.50; Open vc-dir buffer easier and faster

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Message #246 received at 12492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 12492 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, juri <at> linkov.net
Subject: Re: bug#12492: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; Open vc-dir buffer easier
 and faster)
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:47:36 +0200

On 09.03.2020 19:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> I don't think having commands to create a project is really
> necessary.  If a project can be "created" by some external command,
> like by placing some special file in the project root, or even by
> defining a few Emacs variables, that is enough.

'git init' would do the trick. No extra files (for the VC project 
backend, at least), nor having to change any variables.

>> I disagree about useless, since most users deal with existing projects
>> 99% of the time.
> 
> In Emacs?  Can you give examples of such existing projects,

An Emacs repository checkout itself, for instance? Or about any other 
project where VC recognizes a root.

> and how
> users could use the commands we are discussing with those projects?

With 'M-x project-find-file' or 'M-x project-find-regexp' while being 
inside the directory tree of any of such projects.

I thought you've tried and used these commands already.

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