find-file-in-project (v3.5)

Find files in a project quickly.

This program provides a couple methods for quickly finding any file in a given project. It depends on GNU find.

By default, it will automatically search file in project managed by Git. But you can easily switch to other types of projects.

Features:

• The only dependency is GNU find
• Works on Windows/Cygwin/Linux/Mac
• Furthing tweaking of GNU find through flag `ffip-find-options` is possible

Install

Please install through melpa

Setup

It works out of the box for project using Git.

If you use other VCS (subversion, for example), insert below line into ~/.emacs:

(setq ffip-project-file ".svn")

Usage

• `M-x find-file-in-project` starts search immediately
• `M-x find-file-in-project-by-selected` use the selected region as keyword to search. Or you need provide the keyword if no region selected.

Tips

Per project setup

;; if the full path of current file is under SUBPROJECT1 or SUBPROJECT2
;; OR if I'm reading my personal issue track document,
(when (ffip-current-full-filename-match-pattern-p "\\(/SUBPROJECT1\\|/SUBPROJECT2\\|issue-track.org\\)")
  ;; set the root directory into "~/projs/PROJECT_DIR"
  (setq-local ffip-project-root ("~/projs/PROJECT_DIR"))
  ;; well, I'm not interested in concatenated BIG js file
  (setq-local ffip-find-options "-not -size +64k")
  ;; for this project, I'm only interested certain types of files
  (setq-local ffip-patterns '("*.html" "*.js" "*.css" "*.java" "*.xml" "*.js")))

Specify root directory on Cygwin&Windows

(if (eq system-type 'windows-nt)
    (setq ffip-project-root "C:/Users/myname/projs/myproj1")
  (setq ffip-project-root "~/projs/myprojs1"))

Performance

This program has no performance issues with 50,000+ files if you follow EITHER of following suggetions:

Suggestion 1, Install Swiper and insert below code into your ~/.emacs:

(autoload 'ivy-read "ivy")

Then Swiper’s UI ivy will be used. That’s all you need to do.

Suggestion 2, If you don’t like Swiper, the default Ido will be used. It might be slow for 50K files. The issue could be easily resolved by installing flx-ido. Flx-ido also replaces Ido’s default matching algorithm with a much better one. So it’s highly recommended to use it.

Bug Report

Check https://github.com/technomancy/find-file-in-project