From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: live search of files by substring
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:21:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnvqkxut.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9048b64e-a752-4496-ba31-b2bb1b399d8b@googlegroups.com
Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Many of the IDEs have a "live search" feature of files in a project, I was wondering if Emacs had a similar thing?
>
> In many ways, find-name-dired is almost there. Live search basically
> is the same as find-name-dired except it lists responses as the user
> types in the query (and does substring matching rather than regex
> matching).
>
> It would be really ideal if such a tool asked for the directory to use
> based on first use, and then saved that until the user manually
> updates it. Even better if it respected .gitignore and other VCS
> ignore rules.
>
> Is there something similar to "live search" for Emacs?
>
> Best regards,
> Sam
There are several packages that do this sort of thing. For generalized
(ie non-project-specific) stuff there is ido, icicles, anything, helm...
Semantic/CEDET for project-based stuff (I'm sure there's more than just
that). You can check this wiki page for more:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-24 17:10 live search of files by substring Sam Halliday
2014-04-25 0:01 ` Bastien
2014-04-25 1:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-04-25 2:05 ` Drew Adams
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