Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Brett Hoerner wrote:
> I'd like for commands like "grep" and "find file" to open at the root
> of my "project" (I know emacs has no knowledge of projects).  Does
> anyone do / use something similar?
>
> For example, I'm in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/file and I M-x grep, it's
> based in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/ and I don't want to take the time to
> change the path every time - 99% of the time I want to search my
> current project (let's say /foo) for something.  Ditto for find-file,
> changes are the file I want isn't in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/, but
> somewhere further up the tree (and down another branch), I'd love to
> start at /foo.

How should `M-x grep' or `C-x C-f' know to start at /foo instead of
/foo/bar or /foo/bar/blah or /foo/bar/blah/doo (instead of / or
/foo/bar/flah/doo/woo)?

I.e. what do you mean by "project"?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA