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From: | Dmitry Gutov |
Subject: | Re: projects.el and nested projects |
Date: | Sat, 11 Mar 2023 00:29:17 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 |
Hi Ergus! On 10/03/2023 15:57, Ergus wrote:
I am working in a project with a nested setup (like an onion with 3 and 4 levels... VS way). I am wondering how could nested projects be supported in project.el. I know they were somehow in the past and now there is the project-external-roots, but I it does not look very used. So the project root should be the top-most common directory?? Or is better to use the local/closer one in order to have better scope, and the add all the others as project-external-roots?? As the original project was for VS studio, I plan to create a sort of project.el backend for my use case, but I would like to know in advance a bit if it worth the effort.
I suppose it depends on what you want from that project, how you want it to behave.
If you just use the topmost root as the project root, what will you be missing?
Or if you make every nested project to be its own project, what will you be missing then? Will you want to do a global/multi-project search often? Or do a sort of parent-project-find-file sort of thing?
In the naive configuration, the latter could be done just by switching to the root of the topmost project. But if you're going to do it often, other solutions could help as well.
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