Re: [SPAM UNSURE] Add cl-defgeneric project-name; first use case eglot

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> writes:

> eglot builds a name for a server using the root directory of the
> project - in effect:
>
> (file-name-base (directory-file-name (project-root (project-current))))
>
> That name shows up in the elgot mode line, to tell the user which server
> the buffer is connected to, in progress report messages, and in the name
> of the EGLOT log buffer, which is useful for debugging things.
>
> If the project root directory happens to have a meaningful name, that's
> fine. In my use cases, it's usually not meaningful. For example, I have
> two worktrees of my wisitoken project, one for the main branch, one for
> a work branch. The eglot names, and the ones I'd like to see, are:
>
>     default     desired
>     "build"     "wisitoken main"
>     "build"     "wisitoken work"
>
> Similarly, the name for the ada_language_server worktree is:
>
>     "gnat"      "als main"
>
> There are probably other situations where providing a more meaningful
> name for a project would be useful.
>
> So I'd like to add a new cl-defgeneric to project.el:
>
> (cl-defgeneric project-name (project)
>   "A human-readable name for the project."
>   (file-name-base (directory-file-name (project-root project))))
>
> Then I can override that in my projects, and eglot will use my desired
> name.

There is an old bug report for this:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=48747

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