14 December 2008
Proel - Project support for Emacs
One of the most fundamental features that Emacs is missing among all the goodness available for programmers is the support for handling software projects ie. the way TextMate or IDEs does this. Not having a quick way to navigate between files, classes, methods and other symbols starts to significantly suck if you’re working with bigger bases of source code. Because of this, a year or two ago I rolled two screen pages of Elisp or so, to make the basic operations I want to have available project-wide available. It served me very well ever since than, but it was a dirty hack and I really didn’t knew much Lisp at that time. Recently, seeing some other attempts at solving this problem, I decided to cleanup and extend my solution a little bit and make it available for the general public. So the proel package was born.