From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:01:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvk49r14x0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110902091157.GA2770@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:11:57 +0000")
> I've been in proprietary projects with around 20,000 files in them, all
> in directories with ~8-10 files in each. Visiting a file in such a
> hierarchy is a nightmare, as you have to enter, perhaps, 6 successive
> directory names to get there. That's a lot of names to have to navigate
> through.
I think we all agree on this, yes. Luckily in Emacs we get to choose
"f(l)at" trees which work best with our default file-selector. 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).
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 13:01 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 [this message]
2011-09-02 17:52 ` chad
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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