Projectile is a project interaction library for Emacs. Its goal is to
provide a nice set of features operating on a project level without
introducing external dependencies (when feasible). For instance -
finding project files has a portable implementation written in pure
Emacs Lisp without the use of GNU find (but for performance sake an
indexing mechanism backed by external commands exists as well).
Projectile tries to be practical - portability is great, but if some external tools could speed up some task substantially and the tools are available, Projectile will leverage them.
This library provides easy project management and navigation. The
concept of a project is pretty basic - just a folder containing some
special file (e.g. a VCS marker or a project descriptor
file). Currently git, mercurial, darcs and bazaar repos are
considered projects by default. So are lein, maven, sbt,
scons, rebar3 and bundler projects. If you want to mark a folder
manually as a project just create an empty .projectile file in it.
Here are some of Projectile's features:
- jump to a file in project
- jump to files at point in project
- jump to a directory in project
- jump to a file in a directory
- jump to a project buffer
- jump to a test in project
- toggle between files with same names but different extensions (e.g.
.h<->.c/.cpp,Gemfile<->Gemfile.lock) - toggle between code and its test (e.g.
main.service.js<->main.service.spec.js) - jump to recently visited files in the project
- switch between projects you have worked on
- kill (close) all project buffers
- replace in project
- multi-occur in project buffers
- grep in project
- regenerate project etags or gtags (requires ggtags).
- visit project in
dired - run make in a project with a single key chord
- check for dirty repositories
- toggle read-only mode for the entire project
- support for multiple minibuffer completion/selection libraries (
ido,ivy,helmand the default completion system)
Here's a glimpse of Projectile in action (using ivy):
In this short demo you can see:
- finding files in a project
- switching between implementation and test
- switching between projects
You can support my work on Projectile via PayPal, Patreon and GitHub Sponsors.
The instructions that follow are meant to get you from zero to a running Projectile setup in a minute. Visit the user manual for (way) more details.
package.el is the built-in package manager in Emacs.
Projectile is available on the two major package.el community
maintained repos -
MELPA Stable
and MELPA.
You can install Projectile with the following command:
M-x package-install [RET] projectile [RET]
Alternatively, users of Debian 9 or later or Ubuntu 16.04 or later may
simply apt-get install elpa-projectile.
Finally add this to your Emacs config:
(projectile-mode +1)
(define-key projectile-mode-map (kbd "s-p") 'projectile-command-map)
(define-key projectile-mode-map (kbd "C-c p") 'projectile-command-map)Those keymap prefixes are just a suggestion. Feel free to put there whatever works best for you.
Enable projectile-mode, open a file in one of your projects and type a command such as C-c p f.
See the user manual for more details.
- Some operations like search (grep) depend (presently) on external
utilities such as
find. - Using Projectile over TRAMP might be slow in certain cases.
- Some commands might misbehave on complex project setups (e.g. a git project with submodules)
- Projectile was mostly tested on Unix OS-es (e.g. GNU/Linux and macOS), so some functionality might not work well on Windows
Check out the project's issue list a list of unresolved issues. By the way - feel free to fix any of them and sent me a pull request. :-)
Here's a list of all the people who have contributed to the development of Projectile.
A fairly extensive changelog is available here.
Copyright © 2011-2021 Bozhidar Batsov and contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License, version 3