Hi! Thanks for the patch. Pushed to master.
Next time please also add the full common message, though.
Sorry, will do. I was expecting to need to iterate through some review cycles :)
Also note that the idea behind the current default (and also why it
doesn't return a project instance: just the dir) was to avoid visiting
all the directories -- because some might be unavailable at this exact
moment (e.g. remote, over Tramp, and currently disconnected), and some
simply slow.
Yes, I figured that was the reason. I should also mention that I was thinking about automatically pruning zombie projects (my backend yields lots of those) but instead I just had project-prompt-project-name skip zombies, for exactly this reason (that it avoids excess FS access).
It shouldn't hurt to have this as an alternative behavior, though.