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From: DevZero <emacs@gmx.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking for CDPATH functionality in emacs.
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:37:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110106003715.GB6076@phlegeton.tartaros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D221B85.5040702@syslang.net>

Msg from Steven W. Orr [steveo@syslang.net/3.0K] at 03.01/19:55
> What I'd like to do in emacs is to be able to visit a file in some directory
> that I favor (somehow) so that it will automagically find it without having to
> slog through the whole path to get there.

i was searching for that too - and found it in ido-mode!
if you do C-x C-f and just type a (maybe even partial) file- or directory name
ido will expand it (if you visited that file before)...

greetz
-- 
Nature abhors a virgin -- a frozen asset.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-06  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-03 18:55 Looking for CDPATH functionality in emacs Steven W. Orr
2011-01-03 19:08 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2011-01-03 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2011-01-03 20:16 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-01-04  4:42 ` Le Wang
2011-01-04  9:43   ` Le Wang
2011-01-04  5:55 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-01-06  0:37 ` DevZero [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.12.1294080915.3992.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-01-06  9:40 ` Stefan Kamphausen

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