[TxMt] TextMate's Project Drawer in Emacs?

[Jonas Steverud]

Hello,

I've been using TM for the last couple of years but, as you all know,  
a new major release is quite far into the future, and since those  
issues that I have with TM won't go addressed for the coming few  
years, I've decided to move back to Emacs. I had a list of things I  
liked in TM, which Emacs was lacking, but I have found solutions for  
each one of them, apart from one, last item. I know that this is not  
an Emacs forum, but I expect quite a few here has moved from Emacs to  
TM, as I did myself a few years ago, and thought it could be  
interesting to hear your opinion on the issue (esp. since you will  
have experience with both editors and would be able to understand the  
issue better then the pure Emacs folk over at the Emacs forums).

My last remaining item is the project drawer; I do not use it much as  
my projects usually are single file projects, but I think it is very  
nice to have and I esp. like the concept that I can have files from  
different directory trees in one project. I could not find a similar  
concept in Emacs; neither Speedbar nor ECB since to be able to solve  
my "problem", as they try to solve other, unrelated, problems. I  
could use a directory structure but then I have to move some files  
from other location into my main directory, I would like to avoid that.

The project I think of is my website to be specific, I have all files  
in a directory structure under ~/Documents, but I have a number of  
Perl scripts for maintenance located in ~/Applications, and some  
additional support files located elsewhere, and I don't quite like  
the concept of moving all those files (about 10 all in all I think)  
to ~/Documents, even as symlinks.

Any nice, preferable light-weight, solution to this?

TIA.

/Jonas