bug#54228: 29.0.50; project.el: Support local projects

[Manuel Uberti via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On 04/03/22 18:48, Daniel Martín wrote:
> I use similar code in my config.  It's specially useful for monorepos,
> where there is only one big .git folder, but multiple projects that you
> want to handle separately.

In my case it's super useful for projects where I do not have VC involved, of 
which I have a few. I just can't live without project.el facilities in my daily 
Emacs any more. :)

> If we want to contribute this to project.el, I wonder if it makes sense
> to generalize it a little bit by making ".project" the default value of
> a customization variable.  That'd avoid the name clash with some Eclipse
> files.  We could also detect files from common build systems, but I
> don't know if that would be out of scope for the rather minimalist
> project.el (vs projectile.el, for example).

I did not think about making ".project" the value of a defcustom, because I do 
not use anything that relies on ".project" files. But if as you say there is a 
chance of name clashing, then yes, making customizable seems about right.

I'd wait for Dmitry to jump in on this. I'd like to hear his opinion as well.

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