From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Working with different projects in Emacs
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 06:44:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a1275dc-885c-479f-9b3a-fd5b8c881de4@r15g2000vbi.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fxgj7z59.fsf@hotmail.com
On Apr 8, 11:56 pm, Vagn Johansen <gonz...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Damian <damian.o...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hello,
>
> > I work in several projects. Every project has a list of files
> > associated to it (for instance several source code files or latex
> > files). I would like that every time I start working in one of these
> > projects, all the files could be found quickly without specifying the
> > whole path.
>
> > The filesets almost serve this purpose, but the problem is that they
> > open all the files in the fileset, and I just want to be able to
> > auto-complete its filename (when I open a file using C-x C-f).
>
> > File cache is not an option, since I need several "caches" for each
> > project and I don't want to load them all when emacs starts.
>
> > And I'm unable to understand Icicles documentation (and Icicles is
> > more powerful than the tool I'm looking for).
>
> > Until now, I was able to find a solution for every problem (in the
> > good sense) in emacs, but for this one I cannot find one.
>
> > What can I do?
>
> You could try my vps package
>
> http://ozymandias.dk/emacs/emacs.html#vps
>
> It caches both the filelists and the directory list. The latter is
> needed for projects that use directory recursion to avoid excessive
> directory traversals. The caches are rebuilt when they become to old.
>
> Use M-i l (vps-list-dirs) to get a buffer with all the filenames in
> the current project. You can then use search, C-s, ,, , RET RET to
> search for and open a file.
>
> For fast and convenient file selection of a file in the current
> project you could use anything.el combined with the vps source show
> below:
>
> (defvar anything-source-vps-files
> '((name . "Project Files")
> (candidates . (lambda ()
> (when vps-project-name
> (if (not (file-exists-p (vps-filelist-filename)))
> (error "Run M-x vps-write-filelist RET manually"))
> (start-process "anything-source-vps-files" nil
> "grep" "-i" (replace-regexp-in-string "^-"
> "." anything-pattern)
> (vps-filelist-filename)))))
> (type . file)
> (requires-pattern . 4))
> "Source for retrieving files (cached) vps filelist.")
>
> --
> Vagn Johansen
Tried it. Well getting a basic list of directories is working. Nice!
tags is not working
vps-make-tags gives me
etags unknown option --members
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2009-04-08 18:56 ` Working with different projects in Emacs Vagn Johansen
2009-04-09 13:44 ` rustom [this message]
2009-04-09 19:45 ` Vagn Johansen
2009-04-11 15:30 ` rustom
2009-04-11 15:51 ` rustom
2009-04-11 18:30 ` Vagn Johansen
2009-04-12 8:56 ` rustom
2009-04-12 16:26 ` Vagn Johansen
2009-04-14 15:00 ` rustom
2009-04-14 17:23 ` Vagn Johansen
2009-04-15 10:29 ` Stefan Kamphausen
2009-04-08 18:10 grischka
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-04-08 12:50 Damian
2009-04-08 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-08 18:21 ` Damian
2009-04-08 18:44 ` Drew Adams
2009-04-08 19:13 ` Damian
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