From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Denis Bueno" <dbueno@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Looking for interactive `locate-file'
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:37:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv7itvayxq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dbd4d000703051753j23014087ob8beb4edf1741458@mail.gmail.com> (Denis Bueno's message of "Mon\, 5 Mar 2007 20\:53\:13 -0500")
> I would like to be able to interactive find a file inside a list of
> paths, interactively, and in a way that supports some basic pattern
> matching. (For reference, the reason I want this is that Eclipse has
> it, and I find it quite useful.) Currently, I have a first
> approximation [1], but, it sucks. All it does is ask for a (possibly
> non-existent) filename, then look for that in a default list of paths.
> I want to set up a list of directories pertaining to a particular
> project. Then when I M-x find-resource, I want it to ask for the
> filename and look in those paths for it -- interactively, listing all
> matches as I type. So if I were to type "type*.jsp", a results buffer
> would list all the files matching that pattern.
> Has anyone written something like what I'm looking for, before?
Have you tried M-x load-library while using partial-completion-mode?
It sounds fairly close to what you describe,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-06 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-06 1:53 Looking for interactive `locate-file' Denis Bueno
2007-03-06 2:37 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-03-06 3:32 ` Denis Bueno
2007-03-06 14:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-03-06 11:37 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-03-06 14:29 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-06 16:23 ` Stuart D. Herring
[not found] ` <mailman.522.1173191449.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-03-06 18:38 ` weber
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