From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Sebastien Vauban" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browsing files in huge projects emacs Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:52:59 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: <864n96tu2c.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <704d4725-e0e6-4097-83dc-8c0e2fc1be82@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380279314 8406 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2013 10:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:55:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Fri Sep 27 12:55:18 2013 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 1VPVhe-0007Vk-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 12:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35318 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPVhe-0008U3-0r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Sep 2013 06:55:18 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 22 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="402b34550bd938aa98825778083dce0e"; logging-data="13827"; mail-complaints-to="abuse-VVbKFVtnif8H+i2N2EyTrmui9UKz+5OX@public.gmane.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+72hoVyQifRWjn1/2GqAOX" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (windows-nt) X-Archive: encrypt Cancel-Lock: sha1:k1PKnSjwKyJXSRvEnM6O8SN23Tc= sha1:JrRbUAikCtOFPVgqHfiS/ekr5TQ= X-Url: Under construction... Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:201392 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93660 Archived-At: anurag Ramdasan wrote: > I have been using Vim for a while although I would shift to E..macs for > Org-mode and Slime. When I end up working on a huge project with hundreds or > even thousands of files, I found the nerdtree vim plugin to be the best thing > to suit my ways. Also I find dired a little difficult to browse through. > > So when I recently gave thoughts to completely moving to emacs, I couldn't find > anything as good as Nerdtree. I did find dirtree but it didn't seem as easy to > use as nerdtree. This made me wonder, how do most emacs users navigate through > huge projects? Is there some common practice or some plugin that I haven't > heard of yet? Also I use both vim and emacs from the terminal and not the GUI > client. I use helm in its simplest form (M-x helm-for-files, bound to f3 in my local config): then, I just type (part of) the filename, and I get my file opened in a buffer... Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban