From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>,
Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org>,
73736@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#73736: 31.0.50; project and therefore eglot don't work without git
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 14:49:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f4b1a71c-beb0-ef2c-a553-d4f48686cf13@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7d8bfe4-7da3-46a1-b9ed-3da919218bf5@gutov.dev>
On 10/10/2024 2:59 PM, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> If it's just for Eglot, though, maybe ideally it would have a separate
> detector for directories in which to run the language server in - it
> doesn't have to correspond to what the user considers to be the entire
> project's root (they might prefer it to be a parent directory). Not sure
> how automatic it can be in the general case, though, and it'd require
> Eglot to know about root markers for all supported languages.
Yeah, that raises a good point: what exactly counts as a "project"
depends on the context. For simple scenarios, a project is approximately
equal to a VC repository, but for more complex scenarios, I think it
depends on what you want to *do* with the project. For example, suppose
I have a Git monorepo that has several different Python packages in it.
Should Emacs consider the monorepo to be the lone project, or should
each Python package be a project? I don't know if either answer is
correct 100% of the time.
(Even if we're just thinking about VC, "what project is this file in?"
can have multiple answers. Sometimes if I'm working in a Git submodule,
I want that submodule to be the project, not the parent repo.)
I'm not sure if we should open this can of worms yet though...
> I'm not a fan of adding a file that has no other purposes, but if people find this useful, no problem. For personal projects it certainly shouldn't hurt.
>
> Eric, Jim, how would you like this resolution?
I'm fine with recognizing ".project" by default, since it seems we'd
just be adopting an already-existing practice. In addition to the cases
already discussed, it seems that the Eclipse and STM32 IDEs also use a
".project" file at the project root for various things.
To turn it around though, are there cases we know of where we *wouldn't*
want ".project" to mark a project root? Maybe if an Eclipse IDE project
were in a Git subdir? (In that case, maybe ".project" should only be
checked for as a fallback if we couldn't determine the project using a
"real" VC file.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-11 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-10 16:44 bug#73736: 31.0.50; project and therefore eglot don't work without git Eric Gillespie
2024-10-10 18:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-10 18:52 ` Jim Porter
2024-10-10 21:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-11 8:53 ` Joost Kremers
2024-10-11 14:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-11 17:40 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-11 21:19 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-12 14:32 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-12 20:30 ` Dmitry Gutov
2024-10-13 16:10 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-11 21:49 ` Jim Porter [this message]
2024-10-11 22:29 ` Dmitry Gutov
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