IDEA: Create an Emacs package to handle software projects.

Wishlist / Requirements:

• File template selection per lanaguage
• Project template selection
• Project metadata search
• Integrate to build system
• Provide higher order functions
• Close and Open a set of files

Features:

• [X] switch between project buffers
• [ ] switch between project dired buffers
• [ ] switch between project buffers associated to files
• [ ] Command to close all buffers not related to current project
• [ ] Python backend for metadata
• [X] find files in project sub-directories
• [X] find files in project sub-directories matching a regex
• [X] find files in project sub-directories with a given extension
• [X] close all project files
• [X] open a project in a new frame dedicated to the project. The commands C-x right (M-x next-buffer) and C-x left (M-x previous-buffer) switches only between project buffer files.
• [X] Run compilation commands and make specific commands at project root directory.

Todolist:

• [X] Add package header
• [ ] Add documentation
• [X] Add summary
• [ ] Add development documentation and notes.
• [ ] Add examples
• [ ] Add gifs

This package provides commands to open, close, manipulate, find files, run compilation commands in projects.

Features:

• Commands to find-files in project directory and in within its subdirectories.
• Quick navigation between project.
• Open projects in frames exclusive to the project. M-x left or M-x right switches only between project buffers.
• Commands to open projects and close/kill project buffers.
• Commands to run compilation commands and Makefile commands.

A project is just a directory in pjx-root-directory where is the path where all projects are stored.

Example:

$ tree -L 2 ~/Documents/projects
/home/archbox/Documents/projects
├── boleto.fsharp
│   ├── #boleto.fsx#
│   └── boleto.fsx
├── bookmarklet-maker.web
│   ├── dist
│   ├── index.html
│   ├── LICENSE
│   ├── Makefile
│   ├── README.html
│   ├── README.org
│   ├── scratch.js
│   └── scripts
... ... ... ... 

└── zhserver.haskell
    ├── assets
    ├── copylibs.sh
    ├── database
    ├── dist
    ├── Documentation.org
    ├── images
    ├── lib
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── Makefile
    ├── my-zhserver2.conf
    ├── my-zhserver.conf
    ├── README.org
    ├── src
    ├── stack.yaml
    ├── test
    ├── testdb
    ├── test-scripts
    ├── zhclient.bin
    ├── zhclient.sh
    ├── zhserver.bin
    ├── zhserver.cabal
    └── zhserver.sh