[suggestion for denote manual] A way to automatically create denote silos and make them able to be managed via project.el

[alexispurslane]

This is pretty cursed, in that it uses project.el-internal APIs to do this, but I'm still sharing it because a) it might be useful to someone else, and b) maybe someone will know how to make it better. Here it is:

(setq project-vc-extra-root-markers '(".dir-locals.el"))
(defun denote-silo (dir)
    "Create a new directory DIR to function as a `denote' silo and add it to the project list."
    (interactive (list (read-directory-name "Silo directory: ")))
    (if (not (make-directory dir t))
	    (progn
		(with-temp-file (file-name-concat dir ".dir-locals.el")
		    (insert (format "
;;; Directory Local Variables            -*- no-byte-compile: t -*-
;;; For more information see (info \"(emacs) Directory Variables\")
((nil . ((denote-directory . \"%s\"))))" (expand-file-name dir))))
		(add-to-list 'project--list `(,(expand-file-name dir)))
		(project--write-project-list))))

[krisbalintona]

@alexispurslane May I ask what your use case for this was and whether you are still doing this?

Note: Perhaps this issue should be turned into a discussion...