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From: Mark Elston <m.elston@advantest-ard.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: find certain files
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:05:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <136u2klbdc2ssd0@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2048.1181678085.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

* Drew Adams wrote (on 6/12/2007 12:54 PM):
>> I use Ctrl-f to find files in a directory, but...I want to
>> limit it to certain files...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?
> 
> Use Icicles apropos completion:
> 
> C-x C-f \.sas$ S-TAB, if the current directory is /projects/a, or
> 
> C-x C-f /projects/a/.*\.sas$ S-TAB, otherwise.
> 

Drew,


I tried this (I have icicles installed) and got the following traceback:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Bad format environment-variable 
substitution")
   read-file-name-internal(".*\\.el$" "~/site-lisp-22/" t)
   all-completions(".*\\.el$" read-file-name-internal "~/site-lisp-22/" nil)
   icicle-unsorted-file-name-prefix-candidates(".*\\.el$")
   icicle-file-name-prefix-candidates("~/site-lisp-22/.*\\.el$")
   icicle-prefix-complete-1()
   icicle-prefix-complete()
   icicle-call-then-update-Completions(self-insert-command 1)
   icicle-self-insert(1)
   call-interactively(icicle-self-insert)
   old-read-file-name(#("+  File or directory: " 0 1 nil 1 2 (face 
icicle-completing-prompt-prefix) 2 3 nil 3 22 (face minibuffer-prompt)) 
nil "~/" nil nil nil)
   byte-code(<...> [icicle-prompt dir default-filename require-match 
initial-input predicate old-read-file-name] 7)] 2)
   read-file-name("File or directory: " nil "~/" nil nil nil)
   byte-code(<...> [emacs-major-version major-mode default-directory 
icicle-find-file-w-wildcards 21 read-file-name "File or directory: " nil 
dired-mode fboundp diredp-find-a-file (byte-code <...> 
[abbreviate-file-name dired-get-file-for-visit] 2) ((error 
default-directory))] 8)
   icicle-find-file()
   call-interactively(icicle-find-file)

This was while trying to open a number of files in a subdirectory.
I did

     C-x C-f /site-lisp-22/.*\.el$

and, before I got the chance to try the S-tab I got the above traceback.

It seems to work OK with files in the current directory, though.

This is NT Emacs 22.0.50.1 with icicles Version 22.

Mark

       reply	other threads:[~2007-06-12 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2048.1181678085.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-12 21:05 ` Mark Elston [this message]
2007-06-12 22:51   ` find certain files Drew Adams
     [not found] <mailman.2060.1181681757.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-25  8:39 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-12 18:19 econfreerider
2007-06-12 19:54 ` Drew Adams
2007-06-12 20:37   ` econfreerider
2007-06-12 20:54     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-12 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-12 20:24   ` econfreerider
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2056.1181679859.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-12 20:38     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-12 20:02 ` Dieter Wilhelm

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