From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: live search of files by substring Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 19:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4c00f55d-2aa2-409b-b2d2-b066832e405b@default> References: <9048b64e-a752-4496-ba31-b2bb1b399d8b@googlegroups.com> <87bnvqkxut.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1398392857 18362 80.91.229.3 (25 Apr 2014 02:27:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:27:37 +0000 (UTC) To: Eric Abrahamsen , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 25 04:27:31 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WdVrO-0002im-E9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 04:27:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54133 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdVrN-0001wg-Gf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:27:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37469) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdVWB-00018m-Hx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdVW3-0005F6-Hm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:26631) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WdVW3-0005F0-Af for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s3P25NVl002832 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:05:24 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7022.oracle.com (aserz7022.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s3P25Mif004548 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:05:23 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0017.oracle.com (abhmp0017.oracle.com [141.146.116.23]) by aserz7022.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s3P25M7S000985; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 02:05:22 GMT In-Reply-To: <87bnvqkxut.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:97363 Archived-At: > > Many of the IDEs have a "live search" feature of files in a project, > > I was wondering if Emacs had a similar thing? > > > > In many ways, find-name-dired is almost there. Live search basically > > is the same as find-name-dired except it lists responses as the user > > types in the query (and does substring matching rather than regex > > matching). > > > > It would be really ideal if such a tool asked for the directory to use > > based on first use, and then saved that until the user manually > > updates it. Even better if it respected .gitignore and other VCS > > ignore rules. > > > > Is there something similar to "live search" for Emacs? >=20 > There are several packages that do this sort of thing. For generalized > (ie non-project-specific) stuff there is ido, icicles, anything, helm... > Semantic/CEDET for project-based stuff (I'm sure there's more than just > that). You can check this wiki page for more: >=20 > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryCompletion I would recommend starting here. An incremental project-search tool might use completion, but it need not. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategorySearchAndReplace