RE: Looking for interactive `locate-file'

RE: Looking for interactive `locate-file'

[Drew Adams]

> 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.

Re: Looking for interactive `locate-file'

[weber]

On 6 mar, 06:29, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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-em...@gnu.org is probably the right list for this.

You may also want to take a lood at 'ido'.
It makes easier to open buffers and files.
cheers,
weber