From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Dired like functionality on a custom text file Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 08:51:30 -0700 Message-ID: <005301c8bdb6$089ccb10$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com><4832BEF9.5020409@pobox.com> <87ve1981be.fsf@newsguy.com><483409DA.8020508@pobox.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211644335 18766 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2008 15:52:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:52:15 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Alan'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 17:52:54 2008 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 1Jzw37-00030z-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 17:52:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37392 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzw2M-00065W-2T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 11:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzw20-00063V-T6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 11:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzw1x-00062O-RZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 11:51:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58302 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jzw1x-00062L-F5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 11:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:50496) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jzw1x-0003U1-0q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2008 11:51:37 -0400 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m4OFpWD8011537; Sat, 24 May 2008 09:51:33 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt350.oracle.com (acsmt350.oracle.com [141.146.40.150]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id m4OEgou1024806; Sat, 24 May 2008 09:51:32 -0600 Original-Received: from inet-141-146-46-1.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3679530081211644287; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:51:27 -0700 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.5.171.3) by bhmail.oracle.com (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sat, 24 May 2008 08:51:27 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: Aci9YN6m2UOCJx9UTWGy7ekS6QC1VQAVNtrg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:54296 Archived-At: > 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