From: Kan-Ru Chen <kanru@kanru.info>
To: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
Subject: Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:30:27 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bov0z5nw.fsf@isil.kanru.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99145281-4D63-4989-AE4E-954AF12FF96D@mit.edu> (chad's message of "Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:52:37 -0700")
chad <yandros@MIT.EDU> writes:
> On Sep 2, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> […] OTOH it would also be good for Emacs to be able to better
>> handle such deep hierarchies.
>>
>> Currently, the file-selector offers the possibility to type "~/e/e/e
>> TAB" or even "~/eee TAB" to mean "~/etc/emacs/emacs.el", but it'd be
>> good to be able to go further (maybe not as default, but via some new
>> completion-style).
>
> zsh has a completion system like this with pretty nice feature set and
> a fair bit of real-world experience, if anyone is looking for a model.
>
>>
>> E.g. to allow "**/fo TAB" to complete to some file starting with "fo" in
>> some subdirectory. Or maybe even to let "a/fo TAB" to complete to
>> a file with prefix "fo" in a subdirectory of a subdirectory with prefix
>> "a" (e.g. "toto/apple/blabla/foo.el").
FYI, eshell has implemented this extended globbing in em-glob.el
--
Kanru
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-04 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-01 5:44 Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/? Deniz Dogan
2011-09-01 8:35 ` Juri Linkov
2011-09-02 2:17 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-02 1:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 9:11 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-02 9:39 ` Richard Riley
2011-09-02 10:13 ` Deniz Dogan
2011-09-02 13:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-02 17:52 ` chad
2011-09-04 15:30 ` Kan-Ru Chen [this message]
2011-09-06 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-20 13:58 ` Nix
2011-09-21 1:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-21 9:40 ` chad
2011-09-02 16:26 ` Bill Wohler
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