Keeping project buffers tidy with projectile | Random thoughts

September 28, 2016

Keeping project buffers tidy with projectile

Projectile is an excellent library for managing ‘projects’ (where a project is typically a git repository).

Today I found a new tip - projectile-kill-buffers which effectively removes the project from your current emacs session:

projectile-kill-buffers is an interactive autoloaded compiled Lisp function in
‘projectile.el’.

It is bound to SPC p k, M-m p k, C-c p k, <menu-bar> <tools> <Projectile> <Kill
project buffers>.

(projectile-kill-buffers)

Kill all project buffers.

[back]

It is really useful if you are toggling between multiple projects and want to finish working on one of the projects. Simply visit a buffer with a file in that project and SPC p k, confirm and all of the buffers related to that project disappear.

NOTE: it doesn’t actually remove the project from emacs’s session as you can still SPC p p (helm-projectile-switch-project) to the project.

That’s all for now folks.

© Malte Kiefer 2016