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teddyh on Dec 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs

It seems that by default, Emacs wants to treat what it calls “projects” as files having a common root directory:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pr...

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/ED...

There are, however, a fairly large number of third-party packages¹² which seem to be for project management, but I have not tried any of them.

1. https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/

2. https://stable.melpa.org/#/?q=project

dotancohen on Dec 13, 2022 [–]

  > Emacs wants to treat what it calls “projects” as files having a common root directory

Yes, I am using that terminology. I'm not looking for project management, rather, I'm looking for a better listing of open files.

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