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Often, I know the file name but don't remember or find it cumbersome to specify the exactly directory. I'd like to be able to do:
find-file x/y/*/some_file.txt
where * would allow searching in recursive directories instead of just the current one.
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Alternatively referred to as recursive, recurse is a term used to describe the procedure capable of being repeated. For example, when listing files in a Windows command prompt, you can use the dir /s command to recursively list all files in the current directory and any subdirectories.
As described here:
M-x find-name-dired After you provide the directory and the pattern the matching files will be displayed in a Dired buffer. You can navigate the file list (C-n, C-p, etc.) and open files as you wish (Ret).
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I've long looked for that feature and I'm now satisfied with what I found: I'm using helm-projectile.
Projectile is a project interaction library. Projects are VCS directories or directories containing a .projectile file. It is based on GNU find (but offers a pure emacs lisp implementation too)
https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile
(you can install it with packages.el). You can use it alone: call projectile-find-file (or projectile-mode and C-c p f). It uses ido for the completion by default, but in that case I prefer the interface of helm-projectile.
My colleagues kept telling me to use Sublime Text because of that feature. Fortunately, I found projectile :)
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