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28.0.50; add project-name generic

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Message #13 received at 48747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake <at> stephe-leake.org>, 48747 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#48747: 28.0.50; add project-name generic
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:48:02 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

>> In project.el, add a 'project-name' cl-defgeneric, to be used in prompts
>> and other situations where the user is asked to identify a project.
>> It must return a string, which is nominally unique among the user's
>> various projects.
>> The default could be 'project-root'.
>
> Would you like to attach a patch that includes the places where we
> would use the new method?
>
> project-prefixed-buffer-name?

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

This was a year ago, and the original bug report didn't really include a
rationale for the cl-defgeneric.  Stephen, what would you use this for?

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