bbatsov/projectile

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

4233 stars · 588 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Projectile is a project interaction library for Emacs that provides project-level navigation, search, and task-running features. It automatically detects projects via VCS repos, build tool markers, or a .projectile file, and works with any completing-read-based completion UI.

Use cases

• jump to a file in my project quickly
• toggle between code and its test file
• search and replace across an entire project
• switch between recent projects in Emacs
• run build and test tasks for the current project
• work within a subproject of a monorepo
• find references to a symbol in a project

When to choose

• you use Emacs and want fast project-wide file navigation and search
• you need portable project indexing that works on Windows without external tools
• you want per-project workspaces, sessions, and task running inside Emacs

When to avoid

• you use a different editor like VS Code or Vim with its own project tooling
• you only need simple single-file editing without project context
• you prefer the built-in project.el and don't need extra features

Facets

plugin · maturity stable

developer-tools file-system search-engine cli developer-tools text-editors cross-platform emacs-lisp project-navigation project-management melpa editor-plugin emacs

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