From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"? Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:57:23 -0700 Message-ID: References: <43f72653-1412-4402-8074-ef5302ab07a0@35g2000pry.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233129494 31415 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2009 07:58:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:58:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 08:59:28 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LS5KU-000477-9e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:59:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51911 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5JC-00036P-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:58:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Ip-00035k-Ff for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Im-000343-VC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39226 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Im-000340-OO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:58313) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LS5Il-0003ZG-UL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LS5Ij-00035Q-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:57:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5If-0006Sz-7C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:57:29 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:57:29 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:57:29 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <43f72653-1412-4402-8074-ef5302ab07a0@35g2000pry.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61717 Archived-At: 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