Re: Working with different projects in Emacs

[rustom <rustompmody@gmail.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