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Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?


From: Scott Frazer
Subject: Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:24:36 -0500
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Brett Hoerner wrote:
On Jan 28, 1:11 am, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
Sounds similar to the recent thread "build a macro that opens a directory and
prompts for file name" - see that for suggestions. In particular, see Emacs
command `cd' and variable `default-directory'.

Thanks!

I had used 'cd' by hand in the past, but 'default-directory' looks
like what I want.  I'm very new to all of this, I just need to find a
way now to hook the opening of a file, detect if it matches a path
like '/a/NAME/src/.*' and set the default directory of that buffer to
'/a/NAME/src/'

This might be close:

(defvar my-default-directory-roots (list "/foo/bar"
                                         "/baz/quux")
  "Default directory roots")

(defun my-set-default-directory-hook ()
  (mapc (lambda (root)
          (when (string-match (concat "^" root) (buffer-file-name))
            (setq default-directory root)))
        my-default-directory-roots))

(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'my-set-default-directory-hook)


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