From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: browsing files in huge projects emacs Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <0015b35c-8dcf-4bdd-9d86-982fbe233433@default> References: <704d4725-e0e6-4097-83dc-8c0e2fc1be82@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380296361 32145 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2013 15:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:39:21 +0000 (UTC) To: anurag Ramdasan , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 27 17:39:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPa8Z-0006ME-2F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 17:39:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37175 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPa8Y-0005bp-Hm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:39:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPa8E-0005b9-TS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:39:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPa86-00079x-Ax for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:39:02 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:24378) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPa86-00079q-3T for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1) with ESMTP id r8RFcpUe022586 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:38:51 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8RFco8b017167 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:38:50 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt108.oracle.com (abhmt108.oracle.com [141.146.116.60]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r8RFcoUf017161; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 15:38:50 GMT In-Reply-To: <704d4725-e0e6-4097-83dc-8c0e2fc1be82@googlegroups.com> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93669 Archived-At: > I end up working on a huge project with hundreds or even thousands > of files... I find dired a little difficult to browse through. >=20 > navigate through huge projects ... I use vim and emacs from the > terminal and not the GUI client. 1. Bookmarks - to directories, for example. And to Emacs desktops (snapshots recording buffers, windows, variables, etc.). See Bookmark+ for the latter, and for the former too if you want Dired state (markings, subdir insertions etc.) to be recorded & restored. 2. `locate-file'. (Or with Icicles, `icicle-locate' (if you have an OS `locate' command) or `icicle-locate-file'.)