emacsprojecticicles

Icicles find file in project


How can you find a file in a project (defined as everything under a single directory) using Icicles in Emacs? The feature I am looking for is similar to that offerred by the Projectile package.

The documentation mentions that this is possible, but says nothing on how to actually do it.

The reason I want to do this with Icicles instead of Projectile is that I want to use Icicles completion features and not Projectile's ido-like interface.


Solution

  • There are several ways to find a file among your project files. And the doc page you cite is the best place to start. Which ways you choose can depend on how you define a project as a collection of files.

    If, as you say, you define your project files as all of those in and under a single directory (i.e., recursively), then these are some ways to do what you want: