* A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
@ 2007-06-05 16:39 Enselic
2007-06-05 17:22 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy? Drew Adams
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From: Enselic @ 2007-06-05 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Hello
I am wondering if this functionality has been written by someone.
1. I call func-i-look-for.
2. The mini buffer switches to "What file do you want?: "
3. When I start typing, there is a buffer that shows all files within
a given directory hierarchy whose filenames start with what I have
written.
4. I can cycle between available completions with C-n C-p (without
messing up what I have written in the minibuffer) and <return> takes
me to chosen buffer.
Let's clarify with an example. I have the following source tree:
root/file.cpp
root/gtk/gtk.cpp
root/msw/file2.cpp
And call (after requred setup is made) func-i-look-for, then type "fi"
I would now have file.cpp and file2.cpp listed in the buffer, and C-n
<return> would get me to file2.cpp.
Does anyone know if there is elisp code that does this somewhere?
Thank you,
- Martin Nordholts
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* RE: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 16:39 A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy? Enselic
@ 2007-06-05 17:22 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2007-06-05 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Enselic, help-gnu-emacs
> I am wondering if this functionality has been written by someone.
> 1. I call func-i-look-for.
> 2. The mini buffer switches to "What file do you want?: "
> 3. When I start typing, there is a buffer that shows all files within
> a given directory hierarchy whose filenames start with what I have
> written.
> 4. I can cycle between available completions with C-n C-p (without
> messing up what I have written in the minibuffer) and <return> takes
> me to chosen buffer.
>
> Let's clarify with an example. I have the following source tree:
>
> root/file.cpp
> root/gtk/gtk.cpp
> root/msw/file2.cpp
>
> And call (after requred setup is made) func-i-look-for, then type "fi"
> I would now have file.cpp and file2.cpp listed in the buffer, and C-n
> <return> would get me to file2.cpp.
> Does anyone know if there is elisp code that does this somewhere?
Icicles does what you want. Specifically, command `icicle-locate-file'.
Your input matches any part of the complete file name, however, including
the directory part, so if you didn't want that, you would either:
1) Type a regexp such as "/fi" (or, to be rigorous, "/fi[^/]*$", because
that prohibits matches against subdirectory names that start with "fi")
or
2) Define your own command, based on `icicle-locate-file', which would take
care of that.
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_File-Name_Input
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy?
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@ 2007-06-05 19:14 ` Peter Tury
2007-06-05 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Peter Tury @ 2007-06-05 19:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
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Drew Adams írta:
> Icicles does what you want. Specifically, command `icicle-locate-file'.
Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
they missed some external programs (locate & find).
I used a not-latest EmacsW32. Maybe newer versions (of patched
EmacsW32' install) contains these (from MinGW)?
\bye
P
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 19:14 ` Peter Tury
@ 2007-06-05 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-05 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-05 20:43 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension withinadirectory hierarchy? Drew Adams
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2007-06-05 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 19:14:00 -0000
>
> Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
> recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
> they missed some external programs (locate & find).
At least for `find', you can use find-lisp.el, which emulates `find'
in Emacs Lisp.
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 19:14 ` Peter Tury
2007-06-05 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2007-06-05 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-06-05 20:43 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension withinadirectory hierarchy? Drew Adams
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From: Lennart Borgman (gmail) @ 2007-06-05 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Tury; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Peter Tury wrote:
> Drew Adams írta:
>
>> Icicles does what you want. Specifically, command `icicle-locate-file'.
>
> Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
> recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
> they missed some external programs (locate & find).
>
> I used a not-latest EmacsW32. Maybe newer versions (of patched
> EmacsW32' install) contains these (from MinGW)?
Yes, the installer for EmacsW32 or Emacs+EmacsW32 contains these
programs. (But they are from gnuwin32.)
Can you look in EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin to see if they are there? Maybe
there is some setting that should be preconfigured in EmacsW32.
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* RE: A quick way of opening any file with given extension withinadirectory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 19:14 ` Peter Tury
2007-06-05 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-06-05 20:30 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
@ 2007-06-05 20:43 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2007-06-05 20:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Tury, help-gnu-emacs
> > Icicles does what you want. Specifically, command `icicle-locate-file'.
>
> Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
> recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
> they missed some external programs (locate & find).
No, it does not. It matches absolute file names, on the fly. You do not need
an OS `locate' program to use it - you can use it on any platform and you
need not update a database of locations. See the doc:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere.
An Icicles user did write an Emacs command that takes advantage of the OS
`locate' command, if you have such a command and prefer it:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/IciclesUserDefinedCommands.
> I used a not-latest EmacsW32. Maybe newer versions (of patched
> EmacsW32' install) contains these (from MinGW)?
Emacs 22 contains a `locate' command, which is a wrapper for the GNU/Linux
or UNIX `locate' command. I haven't used it.
BTW, besides Icicles and the Emacs `locate' command, there are other ways to
do what was requested - see
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere.
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 16:39 A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy? Enselic
2007-06-05 17:22 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy? Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1584.1181064234.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
@ 2007-06-05 21:00 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-05 21:17 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-14 18:31 ` Enselic
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2007-06-05 21:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Enselic; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Enselic <enselic@gmail.com> writes:
> Let's clarify with an example. I have the following source tree:
>
> root/file.cpp
> root/gtk/gtk.cpp
> root/msw/file2.cpp
>
> And call (after requred setup is made) func-i-look-for, then type "fi"
>
> I would now have file.cpp and file2.cpp listed in the buffer, and C-n
> <return> would get me to file2.cpp.
>
> Does anyone know if there is elisp code that does this somewhere?
Try ido mode.
Not exactly the interface you asked for, but you can do (in root/):
C-x C-f M-f fi RET
and then select the file you want with <- and -> (or C-s / C-r) RET
--
Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 21:00 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy? Kim F. Storm
@ 2007-06-05 21:17 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-06-06 8:20 ` Kim F. Storm
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From: Dieter Wilhelm @ 2007-06-05 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kim F. Storm; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, Enselic
no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Enselic <enselic@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Let's clarify with an example. I have the following source tree:
>>
>> root/file.cpp
>> root/gtk/gtk.cpp
>> root/msw/file2.cpp
>>
>> And call (after requred setup is made) func-i-look-for, then type "fi"
>>
>> I would now have file.cpp and file2.cpp listed in the buffer, and C-n
>> <return> would get me to file2.cpp.
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is elisp code that does this somewhere?
>
> Try ido mode.
>
> Not exactly the interface you asked for, but you can do (in root/):
>
> C-x C-f M-f fi RET
>
> and then select the file you want with <- and -> (or C-s / C-r) RET
I also wanted to suggest your ido-mode but Enselic wants to get the
relevant files from a whole directory hierarchy (please have a look
above) and not only from the *current* directory.
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 21:17 ` Dieter Wilhelm
@ 2007-06-06 8:20 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-06-07 1:40 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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From: Kim F. Storm @ 2007-06-06 8:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dieter Wilhelm; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, Enselic
Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>> C-x C-f M-f fi RET
^^^
>
> I also wanted to suggest your ido-mode but Enselic wants to get the
> relevant files from a whole directory hierarchy (please have a look
> above) and not only from the *current* directory.
M-f starts a wide search.
--
Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
2007-06-06 8:20 ` Kim F. Storm
@ 2007-06-07 1:40 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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From: Dieter Wilhelm @ 2007-06-07 1:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Kim F. Storm; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs, Enselic
no-spam@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>
>>> C-x C-f M-f fi RET
> ^^^
>>
>> I also wanted to suggest your ido-mode but Enselic wants to get the
>> relevant files from a whole directory hierarchy (please have a look
>> above) and not only from the *current* directory.
>
> M-f starts a wide search.
Well, it seems the oversight is on my side 8-\, thanks a lot for
pointing this out, ido-mode is even better than I thought!
--
Best wishes
H. Dieter Wilhelm
Darmstadt, Germany
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* Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy?
2007-06-05 16:39 A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy? Enselic
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2007-06-05 21:00 ` A quick way of opening any file with given extension within a directory hierarchy? Kim F. Storm
@ 2007-06-14 18:31 ` Enselic
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From: Enselic @ 2007-06-14 18:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On 5 Juni, 18:39, Enselic <ense...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am wondering if this functionality has been written by someone.
>
> 1. I call func-i-look-for.
>
> 2. The mini buffer switches to "What file do you want?: "
>
> 3. When I start typing, there is a buffer that shows all files within
> a given directory hierarchy whose filenames start with what I have
> written.
>
> 4. I can cycle between available completions with C-n C-p (without
> messing up what I have written in the minibuffer) and <return> takes
> me to chosen buffer.
>
> Let's clarify with an example. I have the following source tree:
>
> root/file.cpp
> root/gtk/gtk.cpp
> root/msw/file2.cpp
>
> And call (after requred setup is made) func-i-look-for, then type "fi"
>
> I would now have file.cpp and file2.cpp listed in the buffer, and C-n
> <return> would get me to file2.cpp.
>
> Does anyone know if there is elisp code that does this somewhere?
>
> Thank you,
> - MartinNordholts
It works pretty well to just find-file the files needed, then use
excellent buffer selection facility that ido-mode provides.
Thanks for all replies
- Martin
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