From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: find certain files Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:38:38 -0400 Message-ID: References: <11084030.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181680973 6280 80.91.229.12 (12 Jun 2007 20:42:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:42:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 12 22:42:51 2007 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 1HyDCU-0007on-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:42:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HyDCU-0007i2-01 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:42:50 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:38:38 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:g7yjsa4wmi4j3rrxaA7mELCd8wQ= Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-0RIdepUVLqCTHaiBaFPzj3yVjTOV6WkhKt6Dqlf1VTnZmAGVUuT7ZrZBWYsRZNeu8JZ3vrzO3qh2Rw0!PJL851iLKoHjlL6XlaZxa8muWrwigSgzUkxbbsuhHL5z0VHhprMgKHMEtVpU5nS8/mboI+ZRkCQM!EdFSG1lZMGGLan4+3A== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:149390 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:44977 Archived-At: >>> Now I want to limit it to certain files that have certain >>> extensions, for example, only sas files, *.sas. If if do Ctrl-f >>> /projects/a/*.sas, it will open all the sas files. I want to do Ctrl-f >>> /projects/a/, and only display .sas files, so I can choose one. How do I >>> do that? In my unreleased completion code (which is behaves similarly to partial-completion-mode as a first approximation), I can do: C-x C-f ~/toto/*.sas TAB or even C-x C-f ~/toto/**/*.sas TAB so as to look in subdirectories as well. Sadly, it's not in a good shape and will need a rewrite before it has a chance to making it into Emacs (i.e. next century maybe). Stefan