Re: New feature in project.el: Remembering the previously used projects

[Philip K.]

Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:

> On 05.06.2020 11:33, Philip K. wrote:
>> Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to use key sequences, e.g. ‘s h’ for ‘shell’, ‘s e’ for 
>>> ‘search’?
>> 
>> Don't most people tend to use either shell, eshell or some other
>> terminal application? If I were to use shell, over eshell, I guess that
>> this would be somewhat annoying, at least by default.
>
> So what are you saying? Which option would you prefer?

I was questioning how many people switch between eshell and shell, so
that both would have to be part of the menu. One way out would be to
have a user option for "prefered shell", either in Emacs or as part of
project.el.

> Simply by the statement above, I'd probably choose to have only one of 
> the commands in the default set, expecting the user to customize it, if 
> they routinely use the other. And Eshell seems to be a tiny bit more 
> popular (though I could be wrong here).
>
>> I was thinking that a "x" key could be added, which would invoke
>> execute-extended-command, but in the project root.
>
> Why not. Would you like to send a patch?

Sure, I'll try it out.

-- 
        Philip K.