Re: Quick folder/file access in Emacs

[Anselm Helbig]

At Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:23:15 -0700 (PDT),
Ivan Zdravkovic <izi_ttm@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> How do you generally open files in Emacs? Is it always using find-file or you 
> use some shortcuts to access commonly used folders/files? For example, if you 
> have a project currently
> working on, which contains files spread in different folders, say:
> - Apache config files in /opt/apache/...
> - Source of your newest PHP application in ~/php/...
> - Some configuration of your DNS server in /etc/...
> - <add files in distant folders>
> do you find-file all of them (or dired in a similar fashion), or do you use 
> something else to quickly access them?

I use

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookMarks 

and

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings

These features might also be of interest:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FileNameCache
  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FileSets
  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/RecentFiles

This is just scratching the surface, there are some more extensions
you might like that make emacs aware of a "project". Here's a list:

  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryProgrammerUtils#ProjectSupport

HTH, 

Anselm


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