From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to use project.el Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:34:30 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3895"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Help Gnu Emacs To: excalamus@tutanota.com Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 20 20:44:04 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kgCKB-0000uC-HC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 20:44:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40070 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgCKA-00039i-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:52046) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgCIz-00038d-V7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:42:50 -0500 Original-Received: from static.rcdrun.com ([95.85.24.50]:55261) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kgCIy-0006Qr-4h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:42:49 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.56]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by static.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000002C000B.000000005FB81C35.00002BF0; Fri, 20 Nov 2020 19:42:44 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.85.24.50; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=static.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125422 Archived-At: * excalamus--- via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2020-11-20 17:53]: > With 27.1 out, I see talk of project.el, how great it is, and how > it's been around for years.  What I don't see is anything about how > to use it.  There's one sparse page in the manual, C-h i m emacs m > Projects.  I've run project-find-file and project-search.  I fail to > see how they're fundamentally different than find-file or grep. Even me I was reading about it before some days. The difference is is this below. File: emacs.info, Node: Projects, Next: Change Log, Prev: Version Control, Up: Maintaining 28.2 Working with Projects ========================== A “project” is a collection of files used for producing one or more programs. Files that belong to a project are typically stored in a hierarchy of directories; the top-level directory of the hierarchy is known as the “project root”.