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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: Theodor Thornhill <theo <at> thornhill.no>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Cc: 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: Mon, 20 Jul 2020 23:55:08 +0300

On 06.06.2020 16:37, Theodor Thornhill wrote:
> 
> 
>> Could you elaborate?
> 
> Actually, I think I’ll withdraw the over engineering tendency of mine 
> here and rather refine:
> 
> I believe it is appropriate to view project.el to have two different 
> focuses here: one for the general idea and one minor mode (overloaded 
> term, I know...) for vc.

Right.

> To help the out of the box experience with the project-vc I think either:
> 
> - adding common patterns to project-vc-ignores instead of nil, to 
> accommodate for improperly configured .gitignore
> 
> - simply adding documentation emphasizing project-vcs reliance on .gitignore

I have hopefully addressed the above items in commit 7259377. Let me 
know if you think the description is missing something.

> As such it could be neither project nor project-vc responsibility to add 
> the plain version.

project-vc could morph into something like "project-auto"... with a 
customizable list of project markers.

Still thinking about it.

> Will project.el be split at some point? I mean moving vc things to vc.
> I for one (maybe only one) find the scope of project.el a bit confusing

That would be a good idea, but I think that would make it two different 
packages. ELPA Core doesn't understand multifile packages, AFAIK.

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