From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Spencer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: finding files not visited Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:50:04 +1000 Message-ID: <4E71137C.9020503@gmail.com> References: <4E708BA5.7060206@gmail.com> <4E70D77F.9010809@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316033459 25419 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 20:50:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:50:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: GNU Emacs List To: Andrea Crotti Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 22:50:56 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wQ3-0003au-SA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:50:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wQ3-0007yh-Ah for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:50:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wPS-0006hD-DJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:50:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wPO-0000vH-4R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:56264) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3wPN-0000ue-RW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:50:14 -0400 Original-Received: by ywe9 with SMTP id 9so2017902ywe.0 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:50:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=khXcaw4s3vuIenhGTENeTCFrY4tbn0zssO0F3G/jKRA=; b=MI+s5v51Txh1vDAIiLpU8zcz5nLP/XfFSacfZ7CMaTwg+c8eI4f9gIn1bogNWY42zM 1gikhjkHlmwivFUFKFWEcnIP2ZghlAvaT4Xe6rXnj9R8Um5VS2rlRF1X9rOSeM0lRm9m 4OVvjqt5f8lO1+lafSfP5/3SsO4Q9ra7EJHnU= Original-Received: by 10.236.9.106 with SMTP id 70mr1678224yhs.105.1316033411115; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.104] (27-32-230-108.tpgi.com.au [27.32.230.108]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v16sm7956484anq.16.2011.09.14.13.50.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:50:09 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110906 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: <4E70D77F.9010809@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.213.41 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82231 Archived-At: I use ido-mode also and was wondering how to do this. It seems to not search through sub-directories. Is it redefining a function or is it already implemented and just needs enabled. Cheers On 15/09/11 02:34, Andrea Crotti wrote: > On 09/14/2011 04:27 PM, suvayu ali wrote: >> Try ido-mode for files. But a word of caution, if any of the >> directories have too many (~100s) files or sub-directories and are >> remote (as in you are remote editing with tramp) emacs might become >> extremely slow trying to find completions. > > I already use ido-mode, but it doesn't recurse in the subdirectories > (at least not by default). > > I don't see any variable to customize for that, am I blind? > > I like the dired solution, and for example I can set up some > dir-local-variable setting the right switches, for example it's a good > idea to filter hidden directories (like .git or .bzr). > > I'll give finally a try also to anything >