emacs find file in project on a big project

Question

In vim, there is this amazing plugin called command-t, that lets you fuzzy-search through all the files in your project. We have a fairly large rails app with a ton of files

Answer 1

Depends what you mean by fuzzy matching. Most fuzzy matching is inherently slow, but some lightweight, pseudo-fuzzy algorithms are pretty fast. Generally speaking, you're probably better off with a regexp search, not a fuzzy-match search.

Anyway, there are two parts to the question:

• Defining a project as a given set of files and directories.
• Searching through the project files & directories -- all or some

Icicles can help with both:

• Project definition, management, etc.

• Searching a project or parts of it:

  • Searching file content (and search-and-replace)

  • Locating files