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For the longest time, I've wanted to be able to bookmark the magit buffers of my various git projects. It's really useful to be able to jump to the top level view and get a git status summary of what I was in the middle of. However, I wasn't able to use Emacs's built in bookmarks for this, because those require a file reference to jump to, and the magit buffers were not file based. Enter Projectile :)

Projectile (Project Interaction Library for Emacs) by Bozhidar Batsov is a really nifty tool for managing different projects in Emacs. For me it primarily smooths out finding files in projects, and switching between project directories. In particular, I'v got s-p bound to projectile-switch-project:

(define-key projectile-mode-map [?\s-p] 'projectile-switch-project)

Projectile keeps a cache of the different git directories I've been to, and provides it as a list of choices. You can customize the action that Projectile does after you select a project, and there are a few suggestions like projectile-find-file, which would prompt you for a file to visit, and projectile-dired, which immediately opens up the new project's directory in a dired buffer. Both useful, and for a while I settled for opening the project in a directory and invoking magit-status myself.

However, my new favorite is

(setq projectile-switch-project-action 'projectile-vc)

which tells projectile to open up the vc buffer for the new project, which would be the magit buffer for git projects. Itch scratched!