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28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project

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From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: Zhu Zihao <cjpeople2013 <at> gmail.com>, 41572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41572: 28.0.50; [PATCH] Support plain project marked with file .emacs-project
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 15:35:55 +0300

Hi!

On 28.05.2020 06:32, Zhu Zihao wrote:
> This patch add support for "plain project" in project.el. Plain project is a
> kind of project without any VC backend but should be.
> 
> 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 that really a good idea?

I mean, you of course can set up a project type like that yourself.

But if it's included in project.el, it means we're taking it seriously. 
And there's no way to specify the ignored files, say. And file 
enumeration will inevitably be slower than in VC-based projects.

Do you have a lot of projects that aren't backed by VC repositories?

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