bug#67310: [PATCH] Include the project--list as history when prompting for a project

[Spencer Baugh]

Tags: patch


The following patch uses project--list as a minibuffer history variable.
Now one can more easily switch between several related projects.

Independent from ongoing discussion about how to persist project--list
in bug#66993, this should be a useful improvement on its own.

This patch takes special care to avoid relying on savehist's persistent
mechanism, since savehist now knows about project--list as a minibuffer
history variable.

This patch does change the in-memory format of project--list, but not
the on-disk format, and project-known-project-roots still works, so this
patch should be backwards compatible.

In GNU Emacs 29.1.90 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, cairo
 version 1.15.12, Xaw scroll bars) of 2023-11-20 built on
 igm-qws-u22796a
Repository revision: dd8669b14b8a2b9a6d214a9d142dd8ac604f83d2
Repository branch: emacs-29
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12011000
System Description: Rocky Linux 8.8 (Green Obsidian)

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 'configure --config-cache --with-x-toolkit=lucid
 --with-gif=ifavailable'

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