Projectile
Shares rank 22 of 24 Emacs packages by recommenders
An Emacs package for project management that lets people move quickly between projects and find files within them. One critic reports that file search with ripgrep becomes very slow.
An Emacs package for project management that lets people move quickly between projects and find files within them. One critic reports that file search with ripgrep becomes very slow.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 83%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Quick switching between projects
“allows me to quickly move between different projects”
Comment from 2 Feb 2026 in “Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft” Project management in Emacs
“projectile (project management)”
Comment from 8 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Where to begin with "modern" Emacs?” Works in Doom Emacs workflows
“I use agent-shell with Projectile on Doom Emacs as my main workflow”
Comment from 29 Jun 2026 in “Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal” Valued alongside flycheck and ivy
“features that I've come to know and love (like projectile, flycheck, ivy”
Comment from 15 Jun 2026 in “Even More Batteries Included with Emacs”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow file search with ripgrep
“projectile-find-file, ripgrep gets super slow”
Comment from 11 Mar 2026 in “Rebasing in Magit”
Other Emacs packages people recommend
The four most recommended other Emacs packages, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evil mode for Emacs | 39 | 7 | 85% | 11 | — | Approved |
| agent-shell | 25 | 6 | 81% | 11 | — | Approved |
| TRAMP for Emacs | 25 | 10 | 71% | 8 | — | Approved |
| gptel | 20 | 1 | 95% | 12 | — | Approved |
| ProjectileThis page | 5 | 1 | 83% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
5 of the 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I use agent-shell with Projectile on Doom Emacs as my main workflow”
“features that I've come to know and love (like projectile, flycheck, ivy”
“projectile-find-file, ripgrep gets super slow”
“allows me to quickly move between different projects”
“projectile (project management)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.