RE: Navigable file list

[Drew Adams]

> > I am a newbie to emacs and trying to replace my old setup using
> > Vim.  I am trying to re-creete something similar to 
> > vim.project where I have a buffer listing all of the files I
> > use and use this for jumping between files.
> > 
> > I can see that speedbar shows all of the file in a particular
> > directory and ECB does the same.  However I need a recursive list of
> > all files that I can then navigate using search.
> > 
> >   I cant believe this doesn't exist already but I cant find it.
> 
> I can think of dired. It is quite powerful though I have not explored
> very far into it. It shows a flat listing, but I would bet it has
> some powerful searching facilities.

See command `find-dired'.
Wrt search in Dired, see `C-h k A'.

See also this recent thread in help-gnus-emacs: "How not to list the .o files in
find-dired". The answers given there should help you too.