bug#12492: Acknowledgement (24.2.50; Open vc-dir buffer easier and faster)

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 25.02.2020 23:27, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > > C-x p d - project dir
> >
> > That sounds more like "open Dired in the project's root".
>
> Indeed, two commands compete for the same mnemonic key 'd':
> Dired and VC-Dired.

And only one of the is likely to use the project.el functions.

> > > C-x p g - project grep
> >
> > Bind project-find-regexp to it?
>
> Not sure since project-find-regexp is not asynchronous as grep.

All the more reason for someone to work on that. And the former has 
other benefits.

> > And a command that opens VC-Dir in the VC root, wouldn't use the project.el
> > infractructure. Correct me if I'm wrong about that.
>
> You know more about connection between project.el and VC.
> What I could do is only to count occurrences of the word "vc"
> in project.el: 39 occurrences.

VC is just one of project.el's backends. The main one among the 
built-ins, but that's not particularly important in this context.