Re: Convenient way to set "root of my project"?

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 27.01.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Brett Hoerner:

> 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?


Why aren't you using find-grep? It's defined as <find . files and  
grep for something in them>. Changing the "." to another directory,  
for example an environment variable set before you launch GNU Emacs,  
the search will start there. You can restrict the search to certain  
file name(type)s (-name "*.[chm]" or \( -name <sort 1> -o -name <sort  
2> -o -name <sort 3> \)). The output can be found in a buffer with  
hypertext feature: clicking on a line like

	./src/nsterm.m:4634:      [self keyDown: theEvent];

opens that buffer read-write on the given line. The cursor is  
positioned at the word you were looking for.

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Greetings

   Pete

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