Re: find certain files

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> Now I want to limit it to certain files that have certain
>>> extensions, for example, only sas files, *.sas.  If if do Ctrl-f
>>> /projects/a/*.sas, it will open all the sas files.  I want to do Ctrl-f
>>> /projects/a/, and only display .sas files, so I can choose one.  How do I
>>> do that?

In my unreleased completion code (which is behaves similarly to
partial-completion-mode as a first approximation), I can do:

  C-x C-f ~/toto/*.sas TAB

or even

  C-x C-f ~/toto/**/*.sas TAB

so as to look in subdirectories as well.  Sadly, it's not in a good shape
and will need a rewrite before it has a chance to making it into Emacs
(i.e. next century maybe).


        Stefan