Homepage: https://github.com/rdallasgray/project-persist
Author: Robert Dallas Gray
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A minor mode to allow loading and saving of project settings
# What is project-persist? Project-persist is a simple, extensible Emacs package to allow persistence of a list of projects with relevant settings. # What does it do? It allows you to create, open, save, close and delete simple projects based on root directories. # Is that it? Pretty much. It also provides hooks around each of these functions so that you could, for example, load and save an Emacs desktop in tandem with a project, create and save a tags file, or load another project-management solution such as [Projectile](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile). By default, only a project's name and root directory are saved, but you can easily add other settings like this: ```lisp (add-to-list 'project-persist-additional-settings '(my-setting . (lambda () (read-from-minibuffer "My setting: ")))) ``` Each element of the list is a cons cell with car a symbol naming the new setting and cdr a function to obtain the value of the setting. The function will be called during project creation and the setting's value saved as normal. The setting can be retrieved once a project is loaded by invoking: ```lisp (pp/settings-get 'my-setting) ``` Project-persist is intentionally lightweight, in the spirit of Emacs, so that it can be used to build a more complex project-management infrastructure tailored to your needs. Other packages, like the aforementioned Projectile, handle things like searching within a project, so there's no need to duplicate such functionality. It can be required and enabled as follows: ```lisp (require 'project-persist) (project-persist-mode t) ```