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

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From: Zihao Zhu <cjpeople2013 <at> gmail.com>
To: "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>
Cc: 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 19:20:41 +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 of project because we will get the 
same directory local value for all sub-directories of project root.

In your use case. I think we can add variable "project-known-projects", 
you can  add your favorite directory to it, you can also persist this 
variable using savehist.el


On 2020/5/28 下午3:42, Philip K. wrote:
> Zhu Zihao <cjpeople2013 <at> gmail.com> 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.
>

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