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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Alan'" <lngndvs@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Dired like functionality on a custom text file
Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:51:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <005301c8bdb6$089ccb10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d391737b-4aca-4901-852e-99c32311afd9@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

> I have found globalff.el a tremendous help to quickly find files
> scattered all over tarnations.  I have to have locate or slocate up to
> date, and I had to make sure that the directories I am interested in---
> in deep and dark regions of my machine --- are searched and indexed by
> updatedb.  It is possible to save the link and open it elsewhere, or
> open the files right away.
> 
> That being said, I think the virtual dired option will be interesting
> for me.  I use a kind of a depot file for org-mode to keep a list of
> links to important directories and files all over the place.  What is
> lacking is the ability to grep-find...   I use long filenames, though.

For globalff and alternatives:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere





  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-24 15:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-19 18:38 Dired like functionality on a custom text file Jesse
2008-05-19 19:26 ` harven
2008-05-19 20:38   ` Drew Adams
2008-05-19 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-20  5:01 ` Dmitri Minaev
2008-05-20 11:16 ` Chris McMahan
2008-05-20 12:07 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-20 15:03   ` reader
2008-05-21 11:39     ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-21 14:10       ` reader
     [not found]       ` <mailman.11963.1211387800.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-24  5:39         ` Alan
2008-05-24 15:51           ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-05-20 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 20:54   ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 17:35 ` Ilya Zakharevich

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