From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrea Crotti Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding files not visited Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:34:07 +0100 Message-ID: <4E70D77F.9010809@gmail.com> References: <4E708BA5.7060206@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316018310 8099 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 16:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:38:30 +0000 (UTC) To: GNU Emacs List Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 18:38:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3sTg-0003bE-3j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:38:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38453 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3sTf-0001M6-Gf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:35779) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3sTa-0001KS-M0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3sTY-0000fv-VM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wy0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:61971) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3sTY-0000eg-OL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:16 -0400 Original-Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so1971454wyi.0 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=d3fETIENMsSk37MngLU13rx1S0CjRZVS19dbQowlvbk=; b=cELGJNtqu49rIVixsBJkFqT0u0PZbVY0Uqc9X7DFMJtKRWCIQSkGSL0U88vkuArAxB xfuW8/BXZDrVi9Aq1Su7WnJYJBsfhk1eqyM/jYN1eoslj926/x/5KGTcGDLp5KcNsvd8 tKXyh3o+2K5nfo2tGl0EY2/z9+Nr+oWy3q2/w= Original-Received: by 10.227.59.211 with SMTP id m19mr35272wbh.56.1316018295713; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [10.0.0.149] (mail2.xype.com. [87.194.167.167]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fp17sm4655681wbb.6.2011.09.14.09.38.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:38:13 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 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:82229 Archived-At: On 09/14/2011 04:27 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Try ido-mode for files. But a word of caution, if any of the > directories have too many (~100s) files or sub-directories and are > remote (as in you are remote editing with tramp) emacs might become > extremely slow trying to find completions. I already use ido-mode, but it doesn't recurse in the subdirectories (at least not by default). I don't see any variable to customize for that, am I blind? I like the dired solution, and for example I can set up some dir-local-variable setting the right switches, for example it's a good idea to filter hidden directories (like .git or .bzr). I'll give finally a try also to anything