Re: progmodes/project.el and search paths

[Stephen Leake]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> This is not meant to replace/reimplement EDE, but only to provide
> a common API between different systems, EDE being hopefully one of
> them.

It would help if the header comment in project.el said something along
those lines.

There is a big difference between:

"provide an interface between projects and the rest of Emacs"

and

"provide a core API for implementing projects".

The current project.el header is unclear as to which it is intended to
be.

I was assuming projects.el was the latter, and thus in competition with
EDE, projectile, etc.

If it's really the former, that puts a much different light on things;
it should be providing wrappers/adaptors for EDE, projectile, etc, so
grep, compile etc can use project information.


In particular, there should be no "xref-find-regexp"; instead, "grep"
and similar commands should be enhanced to optionally use project
functions to get the search path.

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-- Stephe