Subject: bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project

From: Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 19:27:48 +0800

IMO, it's not practical to use directory local variable

1. directory local variable goes ".dir-local.el". But we can't mark every
directory contain this file as project. We have to do extra search if we
use directory local variable.

2. If we have variable "project-directory-plain-project-p", It's a problem
for us to determine the root

On 2020/5/28 下午3:42, Philip K. wrote:

Zhu Zihao <[email-masked]> <[email-masked]> writes:

To mark a directoy as project, put an empty magic file .emacs-project under the
directory, and project.el should be responsible for it.

Is there any more standard name than ".emacs-project"? Or could a
directory local-variable be used? I like the idea, but wouldn't want to
have so many ".emacs-project" files lying around in toy projects.