From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: DevZero Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for CDPATH functionality in emacs. Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:37:15 +0100 Message-ID: <20110106003715.GB6076@phlegeton.tartaros> References: <4D221B85.5040702@syslang.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1294278763 5632 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2011 01:52:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:52:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 06 02:52:39 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Paf1r-0006rl-05 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jan 2011 02:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39356 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Paf1q-0005h1-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:52:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=32846 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Padqu-0007Md-FK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:37:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Padqs-0003bZ-US for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:37:16 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.22]:55743 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Padqs-0003bT-DW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:37:14 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Jan 2011 00:37:12 -0000 Original-Received: from dslb-092-072-035-113.pools.arcor-ip.net (EHLO phlegeton.tartaros) [92.72.35.113] by mail.gmx.net (mp006) with SMTP; 06 Jan 2011 01:37:12 +0100 X-Authenticated: #110074317 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/eZD1Z96/emMToLubKgqaTTAeoaanAZWjrSPTefo F4o3qtIcX5Inz+ Original-Received: by phlegeton.tartaros (Postfix, from userid 500) id 6D6C2B4; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 01:37:15 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D221B85.5040702@syslang.net> User-Agent: Mutt - The Right Choice User-Editor: Emacs - Its an OS - Build into itself! User-GPG: GPG-Encrypted and signed messages preferred! User-GPG-Key-ID: 0x9B8D89A6 User-GeekCode: GE/ITd-s:aC+++UL++++++++L+++E+++W+++N++oK++w---O-M--V--PS+++PE++Y+PGP++t++5--X++R-tv--b++DI+D++G++e+++hr+y** X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:52:16 -0500 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:78244 Archived-At: 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.