bug#45134: Add project-switch-project-by-name

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Rudolf Schlatte <rudi@constantly.at> writes:

> Certain “dashboard-type” packages present a list of projects and let the
> user switch to one of them.  In that case, the project root is already
> known, and project.el only needs to present the dispatch menu of
> ‘project-switch-commands’.  As an example, see
> ‘dashboard-projects-switch-function’ at
> https://github.com/emacs-dashboard/emacs-dashboard/blob/75f0c46db03b40ec983dbf4aa81e2ccb2e4a16ef/dashboard-widgets.el#L696
>
> This patch adds a function ‘project-switch-project-by-name’, analogous
> to ‘projectile-switch-project-by-name’.  I hope the diff makes it
> through unmangled..

Makes sense to me.

> +(defun project-switch-project-by-name (project-root)
> +  "\"Switch\" to the project in PROJECT-ROOT and run an Emacs command.

But is this the best name for this function?  PROJECT-ROOT isn't the
name of the project, but a directory.

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