From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>, Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:52:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99145281-4D63-4989-AE4E-954AF12FF96D@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvk49r14x0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
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").
>
> The difficult part is likely to be how to handle the performance issue,
> e.g. make sure we only do recursive searches when the user intends to do
> such a thing. Also probably do the search breadth-first to avoid
> spending too much time in some deep irrelevant subtree.
>
>
> Stefan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-02 17:52 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 [this message]
2011-09-04 15:30 ` Kan-Ru Chen
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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