Re: Quick folder/file access in Emacs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:23:15 -0700 (PDT) Ivan Zdravkovic <izi_ttm@yahoo.com> 
wrote: 

IZ> 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:
IZ> - Apache config files in /opt/apache/...
IZ> - Source of your newest PHP application in ~/php/...
IZ> - Some configuration of your DNS server in /etc/...
IZ> - <add files in distant folders>
IZ> 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 anything.el:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/anything-config.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/Anything

It's really useful.  I especially like to turn on the `locate' results,
so I can quickly find results from the whole filesystem.  Plus, another
calculator never hurts.

Ted