From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Denis Bueno" <dbueno@gmail.com>,
"Help-Gnu-Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Looking for interactive `locate-file'
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 06:29:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMOEILCPAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dbd4d000703051753j23014087ob8beb4edf1741458@mail.gmail.com>
> I would like to be able to interactive find a file inside a list of
> paths, interactively, and in a way that supports some basic pattern
> matching. (For reference, the reason I want this is that Eclipse has
> it, and I find it quite useful.) Currently, I have a first
> approximation [1], but, it sucks. All it does is ask for a (possibly
> non-existent) filename, then look for that in a default list of paths.
>
> I want to set up a list of directories pertaining to a particular
> project. Then when I M-x find-resource, I want it to ask for the
> filename and look in those paths for it -- interactively, listing all
> matches as I type. So if I were to type "type*.jsp", a results buffer
> would list all the files matching that pattern.
>
> Has anyone written something like what I'm looking for, before?
Yes. http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere
P.S. help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org is probably the right list for this.
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2007-03-06 14:29 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2007-03-06 18:38 ` Looking for interactive `locate-file' weber
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