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

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07.06.2020 02:46, Juri Linkov wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I wonder why people who prefer eshell, don't enable it with
>
>    (fset 'shell 'eshell)

I thought the point of 'shell' was that 'eshell' doesn't handle all 
possible programs you could run in it? For those cases, people would run 
'shell'.

The above line would make that harder.

> Then the project menu could have just one entry 'shell'.

A slightly longer line can change the entry in project-switch-commands.

> > I was thinking that a "x" key could be added, which would invoke
> > execute-extended-command, but in the project root.
>
> Or as a more general solution a prefix key sequence could be added
> like recently was added a prefix key sequence 'C-x t t' to run the
> next command in a new tab, a similar key like 'C-x p p' could be used
> to run the next command in the project root.

It's a good idea, and we really should have a command like that.

But, for commands that are present in the switch menu, it would still be 
more economical to use project-switch-project, right? I mean, as far as 
the total number of keypresses goes.

BTW, I thought 'C-x p p' would be for 'project-switch-project'. But 
maybe people have a different idea, it's not a strong preference.