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How to exclude files from Projectile?
Looking at projectile it seems to offer four customizations for ignoring
files/directories globally. I am listing each of them below, with their
documentation
projectile-globally-ignored-files
A ...
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How to clear cache of projectile file in spacemacs?
Type M-x projectile-invalidate-cache and you'll see the command with the bindings listed next to it. For me the bindings said M-m p I which was correct, and should be the default I suspect for holy ...
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How to exclude files from Projectile?
Yes, in your .projectile file, on each line specify similar to:
each line looks like:
- /path/to/somefile
Each line contains one file path.
See the official documentation on ignoring files
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Mark and open multiple files with Helm and Projectile
Yes, use C-SPC to mark each file individually or mark all with M-a, then press RET to open all those files. I wrote a Helm guide here that covers Helm basics and most of default commands. Also check ...
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How can the list of projects used by Projectile be manually updated?
You can add a single project to Projectile's runtime list of known projects (projectile-known-projects) using the command projectile-add-known-project, which interactively prompts you for the root ...
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Turn on projectile-mode only for files in actual projects
So, it's about the modeline. You can set projectile-mode-line to check if you are in a project root; if so, displays in the modeline, otherwise displays nothing:
(setq projectile-mode-line
'(:...
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Recursive grep in directory with helm and/or projectile?
You have two ways:
Use helm-projectile-grep/ack/ag: You can search for everything starting from project root. Later if you want to save the search results, press F3 or press TAB to switch to action ...
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A search interface for org mode files
Org itself provides a facility for filtering/searching information stored in .org files in various ways. It is called the "Agenda". The org-mode manual provides extensive information on how ...
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How to use .dir-locals.el with Projectile?
.dir-locals.el does not care about the meaning of the variables that it sets, nor does it assume their values are lists (they do not have to be.) So it does not perform any merge or other processing. ...
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Projectile does not show all files in project
Once activated, projectile works out-of-the-box for git projects. To activate include
(projectile-global-mode)
in your Emacs configuration (or start projectile-mode) manually.
Then projectile-find-...
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How to detect if in a project, then configure another key binding for Projectile?
You can do it like this:
(defun contextual-f9 ()
(if (projectile-project-p) ;; detect if current buffer is in a project
(define-key evil-normal-state-map (kbd "<f9>") 'helm-projectile)
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Automatically add project directory to flycheck clang/gcc include path
Use projectile-project-root to get the root path and add it to the list with a c++-mode-hook
(defun setup-flycheck-clang-project-path ()
(let ((root (ignore-errors (projectile-project-root))))
(...
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Projectile indexes my home directory, how do I stop it from doing that?
Okay, this was dumb ... I had an empty Makefile sitting in my home directory. And because Projectile Project Root Files Top Down Recurring tells Projectile to recognize a Makefile as project root my ...
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helm-projectile with elscreen
Okay, let me share a bit of the process of arriving at the solution to Question #1 (which should also resolve #2).
I'm going to assume you know Emacs key notation and at least a little about Elisp.
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Open helm search result in a new window?
C-z will bring up a new buffer with actions available to helm, and I see the following:
[f1] Open file
[f2] Open file other window
[f3] Save results in buffer
[f4] Edit search results
So you want C-...
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How to set Projectile project name as frame title
The following code works for me.
(setq frame-title-format
'(""
"%b"
(:eval
(let ((project-name (projectile-project-name)))
(unless (string= "-" project-name)
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helm-projectile-ag use thing-at-point as input?
Found it. The setting is
(setq helm-ag-insert-at-point 'symbol)
Reference: https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/issues/1848#issuecomment-108973505
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How do I bind keys in ido?
According to the source code, you need to modify keybindings via ido-setup-hook:
;; Customization
;; -------------
;;
;; Customize the `ido' group to change the `ido' functionality.
;;
;; To modify ...
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Find in Project with Ack
ack-and-a-half is now abandonware.
I don't think plain projectile-ack is still functional in current Projectile -- maybe you should try ag.
If you really want ack, you could give helm-projectile-ack a ...
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Have `projectile-find-file` fall back to `ido-find-file` outside of projects
Write your own command that checks:
(defun maybe-projectile-find-file ()
(interactive)
(call-interactively
(if (projectile-project-p)
#'projectile-find-file
#'ido-find-file)))
(...
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How to detect if in a project, then configure another key binding for Projectile?
Actually you can do it by using a wrapper of those two functions:
(defun smart-for-files ()
"Call `helm-projectile' if `projectile-project-p', otherwise
fallback to `helm-for-files'."
(...
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Projectile installed but "Autoloading failed to define function projectile-mode"
You got the error "Autoloading failed to define function" because multiple packages are apparently active in your load-path. Try M-x list-load-path-shadows to get a clue which packages are conflicting....
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How to exclude files from Projectile?
Another solution would be to use ag(the_silver_searcher) or rg (ripgrep) to generate project files. Here's how you can do it with rg:
(setq projectile-enable-caching t)
;;; Default rg arguments
;; ...
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Projectile not showing all files under my Git project
The quick answer is to invalidate the projectile cache. When using projectile-find-file if you use C-u to send the universal argument before running the function, it will invalidate the cache before ...
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Close other buffers with projectile
Save the below function to your emacs init and call it via M-x.
By default this function will kill all buffers except the ones that belong to a projectile project or are special.
The same function ...
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Run hook on new buffer
You can advise create-file-buffer, if you care only about file buffers.
Likewise, you can advise rename-buffer.
That's what uniquify does, for instance. Are you familiar with uniquify.el? Maybe it ...
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variable project root folder in .dir-locals.el
I found the solution with projectile. It has a function projectile-project-root which can be used to get the project path.
I can noe use the following in .dir-locals.el and it will still work when I ...
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Open file in a specific window
Allowing user to custom action is a great feature of helm, for example, to use ace-window to select a window for buffer to switch, all you need to do is implement it as an action:
(defun helm-buffer-...
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Global Modes not consistent?
Your main question isn't really about global modes at all.
global-linum-mode is (auto) loaded in Emacs by default, and so is available to all Emacs users at all times.
projectile-global-mode is in a ...
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