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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Quick folder/file access in Emacs
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:27:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdlsoaoj.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2611.1247719826.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Ivan Zdravkovic <izi_ttm@yahoo.com> wrote: 

IZ> How do you generally open files in Emacs? Is it always using find-file or you use some shortcuts to access commonly used folders/files? For example, if you have a project currently working on, which contains files spread in different folders, say:
IZ> - Apache config files in /opt/apache/...
IZ> - Source of your newest PHP application in ~/php/...
IZ> - Some configuration of your DNS server in /etc/...
IZ> - <add files in distant folders>
IZ> do you find-file all of them (or dired in a similar fashion), or do you use something else to quickly access them?

I use anything.el:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/anything-config.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/Anything

It's really useful.  I especially like to turn on the `locate' results,
so I can quickly find results from the whole filesystem.  Plus, another
calculator never hurts.

Ted


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-16 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2611.1247719826.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-16  9:31 ` Quick folder/file access in Emacs Anselm Helbig
2009-07-16 10:18   ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-16 16:27 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2009-07-16 18:34   ` Thierry Volpiatto
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2634.1247769693.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-07-16 19:24     ` Ted Zlatanov
2009-07-16 19:56       ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-07-16  3:23 Ivan Zdravkovic

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