Projectile 0.10 is out!

Projectile 0.10.0 is out!

This might come as a surprise for people tracking Projectile’s development, since recent snapshots were using 1.0 as the version number, so allow me to explain. I’ve been wanting to release Projectile 1.0 for a while now, but I felt that without the addition of per-project settings support and some refinements to the way ignoring of files & folders currently work, such moniker would be unjustified. Unfortunately, lately I’ve been quite busy working on other projects like cider and RuboCop and I don’t have that much time to work on Projectile, so I kept delaying the 1.0 version.

Recently I decided to release version 0.10 instead, for the benefit of users of package repos like Marmalade. The minor bump in the version doesn’t mean that 0.10 is not a noteworthy update, though. 5 months of development and more than a hundred commits from almost a dozen of developers have really improved the Projectile experience. It’s easily the biggest update of Projectile, since the project was conceived.

Some of the highlights include:

• .projectile is always taken into account (previously it was consulted only when doing native indexing)
• There’s now the ability to search for files in a specific directory
• More project types are recognized
• You can search for etags (ctags) in a project
• The Commander (a really cool feature inspired from CIDER & SLIME, that I’ll show in a bit)
• Dozens of (mostly undocumented in the Changelog) bugfixes

Have a look at the changelog for more details.

And here’s the new Commander in action:

Basically it gives you a way to invoke many of the Projectile commands with a single key - f for find-file, s for switch-project, etc. It’s very handy when switching projects since with this command you can always pick a different command to execute in the new project. By the way, projectile-switch-project will now run the commander, when invoked with a prefix argument (C-u C-c p s).