Re: Quick folder/file access in Emacs

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:34:45 +0200 Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> TV> In addition to locate, if you use anything-traverse.el, you will be able
> TV> to search files recursively in a directory tree.You can have these datas
> TV> persistent between emacs sessions if you want.
> TV> I can index the 35000 files of my home directory with that.
> TV> You can have an index in any directory.
>
> That is nice for specific subsets.  I use locate to search across
> millions of files (SVN repository with many checked-out branches); it's
> slower but since it's asynchronous I don't mind.

It is for specific subsets, it is complementary to locate when you want
to search only in this directory and not in the whole system.
You can also set it to use only these dirs or these files.

> It would be nice if Emacs had a way to automatically persist hashtables,
> wouldn't it?  Maybe tying them to SQLite or something like that...  I've
> proposed it on emacs-devel before but so far there's been little
> interest; after Emacs 23 is out I'll probably push it again.

Yes would be nice among other things.

> Ted
>

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