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RE: buffer for unopened file?
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: buffer for unopened file? |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:20:03 -0700 |
> The use case is that I have a makefile that
> generates dependencies for an application
> and those dependencies are scattered around
> a directory tree with other files that aren't
> dependencies. When I'm working on the source
> code, I sometimes want to open a file that I know
> starts with xyz, but I don't know its directory or
> what it ends with. It would be nice to use buffer
> name completion to find the file. What I do today
> is a tags search for something I know is in that
> file, but sometimes I can't think of exactly what's
> in it. If I could just type C-x b xyz<tab> and see
> a list of all of the (pseudo)buffers that begin
> with xyz or search my ECB alphabetized
> buffer list for the file, that would be great.
Sebastian's reply was probably more helpful than mine, in that case.
However, I'd suggest you take a look at Emacs Wiki. There are several
libraries that provide something close to what you are requesting, if
Sebastian's suggestion doesn't do it for you 100%.
There are libraries that let you define a named set of files or buffers that
you frequently want to visit, search, etc. Icicles, filename-cache, and
bs.el come to mind, but there are others.
FYI, in Icicles:
* You can save a buffer configuration (list of buffers etc.) persistently.
* You can save a list of regions (in multiple buffers) persistently.
* You can create a custom list of completion candidates (file names, buffer
names, whatever), save that persistently, and reuse it later (for
completion).
* You can save a set of file-name candidates persistently, and later open
Dired for just those files.
All of those work with completion, including substring and regexp
completion.
Some Icicles links that might help here:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Candidate_Sets
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Persistent_Completions
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Multiple_Regions
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Icicles_-_Search_Commands%2c_Overview
- buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Amy Templeton, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/10/19
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/10/19
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/19
- RE: buffer for unopened file?,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- Icicles and Emacs [was: buffer for unopened file?], Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Message not available
- Icicles integration into CVS emacs (was: buffer for unopened file?), Giles Chamberlin, 2007/10/23
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/21
- Message not available
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Mathias Dahl, 2007/10/24