Well maybe a find-dired or find-grep-dired is enough for him ?

On 5/20/06, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>     I've a big java project that i'm doing in emacs with jdee and ecb. I
>     want to find a file that exists somewhere inside the project. Is there
>     any quick way to do it?
>
> What do you know about the file - the name? part of the name? the
> directory
> name (path)? part of the directory name?
>
> You can use command `icicle-locate-file' to find (visit) any file on your
> file system. It lets you use a regexp to match any parts of the file name,
> including any parts of its path.
>
> It's in Icicles: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles and is
> described here:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_File-Name_Input. The
> Icicles
> libraries are here:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Libraries.
>
> Just download the libraries, byte-compile them, put them in your
> `load-path', `M-x load-library icicles', `M-x icy-mode', `M-x C-u
> icicle-locate-file' and type the root directory of your search. You can
> then
> type a regexp that matches what you know about the file name and its path.
> You can change the regexp input on the fly and see the resulting hits
> updated incrementally in buffer *Completions*, if you like.
>
> If you do this often and you are searching a large file system, you can
> use
> a persistent cache to speed things up after the first time - see the doc.
>
> There are other packages that also let you locate files, in different
> ways.
> See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere. And you can
> of course use the various forms of the Unix or GNU/Linux `find' command
> that
> are available in Emacs - see the Emacs manual for that.
>
>
>
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