From: Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: live search of files by substring
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 10:10:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9048b64e-a752-4496-ba31-b2bb1b399d8b@googlegroups.com> (raw)
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
next reply other threads:[~2014-04-24 17:10 UTC|newest]
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2014-04-24 17:10 Sam Halliday [this message]
2014-04-25 0:01 ` live search of files by substring Bastien
2014-04-25 1:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-04-25 2:05 ` Drew Adams
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