Mike Zamansky, on the heals of his last video, has another offering in his Using Emacs Series. This time it’s about the new Project library built into the latest Emacs. If you’re familiar with Bozhidar Batsov’s Projectile package, you can think of Project as a pared down, built-in Projectile.
Zamansky is refactoring his Emacs configuration and trying to keep down the bloat. Since he doesn’t use the Project/Projectile functionalities very often it makes sense for him to see if he can replace Projectile with Project.
The video takes us through the Project workflow and concludes that, at least for Zamansky’s needs, it’s a decent replacement for Projectile. There’s no doubt that Projectile is more complete and polished at this point but Project will no doubt evolve to meet the needs of its users.
Projectile has long been a popular project and many people swear by it. I’ve never felt the need for what it offers so I have nothing to offer in the way of informed advice. By way of uninformed advice, I’d say try out Project and if it works for you, investigate Projectile.
The video is 11 minutes, 39 seconds so you can probably fit it into a coffee break. The good news is Zamasnsky is promising more videos in the near future.