Re: New feature in project.el: Remembering the previously used projects

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 30.05.2020 15:42, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote:
> (Though I've just noticed that project-current now returns transient
> projects unconditionally when project--find-in-directory returns nil;

BTW, that's a bug. :-(

> since I'm not interested in showing transient projects in the frame
> title, I might just go with project-try-vc like Dmitry suggested…)

Not really what I was suggesting.

Here's another patch you can try, it should cover both problems:

diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/project.el b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
index 1f2a4e8471..2d0b6c4a21 100644
--- a/lisp/progmodes/project.el
+++ b/lisp/progmodes/project.el
@@ -115,10 +115,11 @@ project-current
         maybe-prompt)
       (setq dir (project-prompt-project-dir)
             pr (project--find-in-directory dir))))
-    (if pr
-        (project--add-to-project-list-front pr)
-      (project--remove-from-project-list dir)
-      (setq pr (cons 'transient dir)))
+    (when maybe-prompt
+      (if pr
+          (project--add-to-project-list-front pr)
+        (project--remove-from-project-list dir)
+        (setq pr (cons 'transient dir))))
     pr))

 (defun project--find-in-directory (dir)