It seems that by default, Emacs wants to treat what it calls “projects” as files having a common root directory: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html

It seems that by default, Emacs wants to treat what it calls “projects” as files having a common root directory: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Projects.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Pr... https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/EDE.html https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/ED... There are, however, a fairly large number of third-party packages¹² which seem to be for project management, but I have not tried any of them. 1. https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/ 2. https://stable.melpa.org/#/?q=project https://stable.melpa.org/#/?q=project