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Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Jun 2020 10:20:57 +0300 |
> Cc: theothornhill@pm.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 22:33:07 +0300
>
> On 19.06.2020 22:12, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> That is, again, true. But what of the rest of files in that repository?
> >> Do they belong to a different project?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> >> Do you also visit them, or not?
> >
> > Not as part of working on the current project. Though I might decide
> > to add some of them to the current project, as the need arises.
>
> I mean, do you visit them in the same Emacs session?
I just answered that above. This is all in a single Emacs session.
> > In any case, my point was that relying on the VCS to determine what is
> > and isn't in the project presents a restriction that a general-purpose
> > project-handling facility should lift early on to be useful, IMO.
>
> I agree, but agreement alone is not enough to make it a reality.
>
> OTOH, we already have a customization point that allows to exclude more
> files than .gitignore does (the project-vc-ignores variable).
I don't think exclusion alone is enough. We need also a way of
_including_ files in a project.
> *And* one can use the project API to introduce a project backend that
> does not rely on VC repositories.
I think we should have commands to do so in the core. It's too basic
a capability for any IDE for us to leave it to add-ons.
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, (continued)
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Theodor Thornhill, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Theodor Thornhill, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, address@hidden, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/20
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/06/20
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/20
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Theodor Thornhill, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/06/19
- Re: master 1e3b0f2: Improve doc strings of project.el, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/06/19