Re: Spurious buffer saving triggered by M-x compile

[Geoff Gole]

> There has been talk about a project concept on this list before. One
> simple idea was to search up the directory tree to find a vc directory
> (.bzr, .git), or other filename known to exist in the root directory
> of a project.
>
> If there was a concept of a project, compilation-ask-about-save could
> presumably be told to only ask about files in a subdirectory of the
> current project.

That sounds like a good idea, but it would be nice to also handle the
case where there is no project.

(Was this reply supposed to be off-list? I'm dragging it back on-list
on the assumption it was not.)