Navigable file list

Navigable file list

[john.north1]

Hi Everyone,

  I am a newbie to emacs and trying to replace my old setup using
Vim.  I am trying to re-creete something similar to vim.project where
I have a buffer listing all of the files I use and use this for
jumping between files.

  I can see that speedbar shows all of the file in a particular
directory and ECB does the same.  However I need a recursive list of
all files that I can then navigate using search.

  I cant believe this doesn't exist already but I cant find it.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Navigable file list

[Sean Sieger]

john.north1@gmail.com writes:

    I am trying to re-creete something similar to vim.project where
    I have a buffer listing all of the files I use and use this for
    jumping between files.

*Buffer List* by doing C-x C-b?

Re: Navigable file list

[John North]

On 17 Mar, 18:41, Sean Sieger <sean.sie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> john.nor...@gmail.com writes:
>
>     I am trying to re-creete something similar to vim.project where
>     I have a buffer listing all of the files I use and use this for
>     jumping between files.
>
> *Buffer List* by doing C-x C-b?

Thanks, but the buffer list only shows open buffers.  I am looking for
a list of all (or a subset) of the files from a directory and its sub-
directories.

Re: Navigable file list

[Mike Mattie]

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On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:15:01AM -0700, john.north1@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
>   I am a newbie to emacs and trying to replace my old setup using
> Vim.  I am trying to re-creete something similar to vim.project where
> I have a buffer listing all of the files I use and use this for
> jumping between files.
> 
>   I can see that speedbar shows all of the file in a particular
> directory and ECB does the same.  However I need a recursive list of
> all files that I can then navigate using search.
> 
>   I cant believe this doesn't exist already but I cant find it.
> 
> Thanks for your help.

I can think of dired. It is quite powerful though I have not explored
very far into it.

It shows a flat listing, but I would bet it has some powerful searching
facilities.

once the files have been opened there is C-x-b where you can go through
the list, and hitting enter switches to that buffer.

Hopefully this helps a bit

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RE: Navigable file list

[Drew Adams]

> > I am a newbie to emacs and trying to replace my old setup using
> > Vim.  I am trying to re-creete something similar to 
> > vim.project where I have a buffer listing all of the files I
> > use and use this for jumping between files.
> > 
> > I can see that speedbar shows all of the file in a particular
> > directory and ECB does the same.  However I need a recursive list of
> > all files that I can then navigate using search.
> > 
> >   I cant believe this doesn't exist already but I cant find it.
> 
> I can think of dired. It is quite powerful though I have not explored
> very far into it. It shows a flat listing, but I would bet it has
> some powerful searching facilities.

See command `find-dired'.
Wrt search in Dired, see `C-h k A'.

See also this recent thread in help-gnus-emacs: "How not to list the .o files in
find-dired". The answers given there should help you too.

Re: Navigable file list

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 17.03.2009 um 19:54 schrieb John North:

> Thanks, but the buffer list only shows open buffers.  I am looking for
> a list of all (or a subset) of the files from a directory and its sub-
> directories.

M-x dired RET ?

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Greetings

   Pete

Imbecility, n.:
	A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting
	censorious critics of this dictionary.
			– Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_

Re: Navigable file list

[John North]

On Mar 18, 9:18 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 17.03.2009 um 19:54 schrieb John North:
>
> > Thanks, but the buffer list only shows open buffers.  I am looking for
> > a list of all (or a subset) of the files from a directory and its sub-
> > directories.
>
> M-x dired RET ?
>
> --
> Greetings
>
>    Pete
>
> Imbecility, n.:
>         A kind of divine inspiration, or sacred fire affecting
>         censorious critics of this dictionary.
>                         – Ambrose Bierce: _The Devil's Dictionary_

Thanks everyone,

  dired and find-dired seem to do exactly what I need, especially when
combined with with virtual-dired.

 I had been looking through lots of add-ins and it was core
functionality.

Thanks for the help

Re: Navigable file list

[D Lynn]

john.north1@gmail.com writes:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>   I am a newbie to emacs and trying to replace my old setup using
> Vim.  I am trying to re-creete something similar to vim.project where
> I have a buffer listing all of the files I use and use this for
> jumping between files.
>
>   I can see that speedbar shows all of the file in a particular
> directory and ECB does the same.  However I need a recursive list of
> all files that I can then navigate using search.
>
>   I cant believe this doesn't exist already but I cant find it.
>
> Thanks for your help.

You might look at nav which google just released:
http://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/

"Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like
TextMate's file browser, or the Eclipse project view"