Projectile is a project interaction library for Emacs. Its goal is to
provide a nice set of features operating on a project level without
introducing external dependencies (when feasible). For instance -
finding project files has a portable implementation written in pure
Emacs Lisp without the use of GNU find
(but for performance sake an
indexing mechanism backed by external commands exists as well).
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In practical terms the fact that Projectile can index the files in
a project without shelling out to find
, git
or whatever, means
that unlike many similar tools it will work on Windows without any
additional setup.
Projectile tries to be practical - portability is great, but if some external tools could speed up some task substantially and the tools are available, Projectile will leverage them.
Here's a glimpse of Projectile in action (find file in project using ido
):
Projectile provides easy project management and navigation. The
concept of a project is pretty basic - just a folder containing
special file. Currently most VCS repos (e.g. git
, mercurial
, etc)
are considered projects by default, as are directories containing
build tools (e.g. maven
, leiningen
, etc) or framework markers
(e.g. Ruby on Rails). If you want to mark a folder manually as a
project just create an empty .projectile
file in it. Some of
Projectile's features:
- jump to a file in project
- jump to files at point in project
- jump to a directory in project
- jump to a file in a directory
- jump to a project buffer
- jump to a test in project
- toggle between files with same names but different extensions (e.g.
.h
<->.c/.cpp
,Gemfile
<->Gemfile.lock
) - toggle between code and its test (e.g.
main.service.js
<->main.service.spec.js
) - jump to recently visited files in the project
- switch between projects you have worked on
- kill all project buffers
- replace in project
- multi-occur in project buffers
- grep in project
- regenerate project etags or gtags (requires ggtags).
- visit project in dired
- run make in a project with a single key chord
- browse dirty version controlled projects
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A bit of trivia for you - Projectile was my very first open-source project and it has a very special place in my heart!
You can support my work on Projectile via PayPal, Salt, Patreon and Liberapay.