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Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?
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chad |
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Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/? |
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Fri, 2 Sep 2011 10:52:37 -0700 |
On Sep 2, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> […] OTOH it would also be good for Emacs to be able to better
> handle such deep hierarchies.
>
> Currently, the file-selector offers the possibility to type "~/e/e/e
> TAB" or even "~/eee TAB" to mean "~/etc/emacs/emacs.el", but it'd be
> good to be able to go further (maybe not as default, but via some new
> completion-style).
zsh has a completion system like this with pretty nice feature set and a fair
bit of real-world experience, if anyone is looking for a model.
>
> E.g. to allow "**/fo TAB" to complete to some file starting with "fo" in
> some subdirectory. Or maybe even to let "a/fo TAB" to complete to
> a file with prefix "fo" in a subdirectory of a subdirectory with prefix
> "a" (e.g. "toto/apple/blabla/foo.el").
>
> The difficult part is likely to be how to handle the performance issue,
> e.g. make sure we only do recursive searches when the user intends to do
> such a thing. Also probably do the search breadth-first to avoid
> spending too much time in some deep irrelevant subtree.
>
>
> Stefan
>
- Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Deniz Dogan, 2011/09/01
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Juri Linkov, 2011/09/01
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/01
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Alan Mackenzie, 2011/09/02
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Richard Riley, 2011/09/02
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/02
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?,
chad <=
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Kan-Ru Chen, 2011/09/04
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Stefan Monnier, 2011/09/06
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Nix, 2011/09/20
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2011/09/20
- Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, chad, 2011/09/21
Re: Is it time to create more subdirs in lisp/?, Bill Wohler, 2011/09/02