Re: Quick folder/file access in Emacs

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Ivan Zdravkovic <izi_ttm@yahoo.com> wrote: 
>
> IZ> How do you generally open files in Emacs? Is it always using find-file or you use some shortcuts to access commonly used folders/files? For example, if you have a project currently working on, which contains files spread in different folders, say:
> IZ> - Apache config files in /opt/apache/...
> IZ> - Source of your newest PHP application in ~/php/...
> IZ> - Some configuration of your DNS server in /etc/...
> IZ> - <add files in distant folders>
> IZ> do you find-file all of them (or dired in a similar fashion), or do you use something else to quickly access them?
>
> I use anything.el:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/anything-config.el
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/Anything
>
> It's really useful.  I especially like to turn on the `locate' results,
> so I can quickly find results from the whole filesystem.  Plus, another
> calculator never hurts.

In addition to locate, if you use anything-traverse.el, you will be able
to search files recursively in a directory tree.You can have these datas
persistent between emacs sessions if you want.
I can index the 35000 files of my home directory with that.
You can have an index in any directory.

> Ted
>

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