From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:57:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <glp34s$uhb$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43f72653-1412-4402-8074-ef5302ab07a0@35g2000pry.googlegroups.com>
Brett Hoerner wrote:
> I'd like for commands like "grep" and "find file" to open at the root
> of my "project" (I know emacs has no knowledge of projects). Does
> anyone do / use something similar?
>
> For example, I'm in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/file and I M-x grep, it's
> based in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/ and I don't want to take the time to
> change the path every time - 99% of the time I want to search my
> current project (let's say /foo) for something. Ditto for find-file,
> changes are the file I want isn't in /foo/bar/blah/doo/woo/, but
> somewhere further up the tree (and down another branch), I'd love to
> start at /foo.
How should `M-x grep' or `C-x C-f' know to start at /foo instead of
/foo/bar or /foo/bar/blah or /foo/bar/blah/doo (instead of / or
/foo/bar/flah/doo/woo)?
I.e. what do you mean by "project"?
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 7:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 22:13 Convenient way to set "root of my project"? Brett Hoerner
2009-01-28 7:11 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-28 7:49 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2009-01-28 7:57 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2009-01-28 9:03 ` Andreas Politz
2009-01-28 10:57 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.6052.1233129460.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:22 ` Brett Hoerner
[not found] ` <mailman.6072.1233140265.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:24 ` Brett Hoerner
[not found] ` <mailman.6047.1233126709.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-01-28 15:25 ` Brett Hoerner
2009-01-28 21:24 ` Scott Frazer
2009-01-29 17:00 ` Drew Adams
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