From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: William Xu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browsing files in huge projects emacs Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 17:25:03 +0800 Organization: the Church of Emacs Message-ID: References: <704d4725-e0e6-4097-83dc-8c0e2fc1be82@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380360345 32278 80.91.229.3 (28 Sep 2013 09:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:25:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 28 11:25:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqma-0002pa-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:25:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40242 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqma-00086I-7C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqmH-00085z-5p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:25:35 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqmA-0002v0-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:25:29 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:42952) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqmA-0002ur-BL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 05:25:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPqm8-0002Tu-Qa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from 182.48.101.22 ([182.48.101.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:25:20 +0200 Original-Received: from william.xwl by 182.48.101.22 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2013 11:25:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 182.48.101.22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VIq604sFpv15WKv8G2qdLjIeLHQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93697 Archived-At: anurag Ramdasan writes: > Hey, > > I have been using Vim for a while although I would shift to E..macs for Org-mode > and Slime. When I end up working on a huge project with hundreds or even > thousands of files, I found the nerdtree vim plugin to be the best thing to suit > my ways. Also I find dired a little difficult to browse through. > > So when I recently gave thoughts to completely moving to emacs, I couldn't find > anything as good as Nerdtree. I did find dirtree but it didn't seem as easy to > use as nerdtree. This made me wonder, how do most emacs users navigate through > huge projects? Is there some common practice or some plugin that I haven't heard > of yet? Also I use both vim and emacs from the terminal and not the GUI client. I use `global' to generate the index, then use gtags.el in emacs. -- William http://xwl.appspot.com