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New version of Emacs Nav is up

32 points by it 14y ago

lflux 14y ago
"Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like TextMate's file browser, or the Eclipse project view. Unlike these two, Nav only shows the contents of a single directory at a time." Which is where it fails to be as useful as TextMate or Eclipse. I spend a lot of time jumping around directories when exploring new codebases or working in my Rails and Chef projects, just showing one dir doesn't cut it.
- raju 14y ago
  I agree, although I am yet to find something similar to "NERD tree" for VIM. Any suggestions?
  - spacemanaki 14y ago
    I assume you mean suggestions for Emacs? I've never used NERD tree (I haven't used TextMate's file browser or this emacs-nav thing either), but have you tried dired? It's built-in to Emacs and accomplishes almost everything I want from a "project explorer" type of thing. It's possible my needs aren't that great though. Visit a directory (C-x C-f) to get into it, and then use this: http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/editors/dired-refcard.gnu.pdf http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/editors...
    - raju 14y ago
      Dired works, but I really like Textmate's (or Sublime Text's) project explorer. Sometimes, at least for me, it's nice to see where a file is in relation with the "big picture". Having a file explorer only open one directory at a time is a tad disorienting. Thanks for the cheatsheet though - Dired is mighty handy :)
  - inkel 14y ago
    Guessing you're referring to Emacs and not Vim, I've been using textmate.el [1] and it is just great. [1] http://ozmm.org/posts/textmate_minor_mode.html http://ozmm.org/posts/textmate_minor_mode.html
    - raju 14y ago
      Correct - I am an Emacs user and have always found working in projects hard in emacs. textmate.el is really nice (though with emacs-starter-kit there is a built in find-file-in-project - a "project" being your git repo by default) - But it doesn't solve the problem I am having - that is, being able to see the whole project at the same time within a nested tree structure.
vdm 14y ago
Changelog: http://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/source/list http://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/source/list
gecko 14y ago
It's not that this isn't useful, but rather that there's an old (but fully functional) way to run Speedbar in the current frame, called sr-speedbar, available at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar. I'm not clear what benefit Nav provides that sr-speedbar doesn't (and I know plenty in the reverse, since Speedbar's used by a number of IDE packages for things that have nothing to do with directories. (E.g., CEDET can use it to show the class hierarchy.)
- raju 14y ago
  Aha! This might actually solve my problem [1] - Thanks! 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999
protez 14y ago
Nav is nothing when you have anything.el.

32 points by it 14y ago

lflux 14y ago

"Nav is a lightweight solution for Emacs users who want something like TextMate's file browser, or the Eclipse project view. Unlike these two, Nav only shows the contents of a single directory at a time." Which is where it fails to be as useful as TextMate or Eclipse. I spend a lot of time jumping around directories when exploring new codebases or working in my Rails and Chef projects, just showing one dir doesn't cut it.

raju 14y ago
I agree, although I am yet to find something similar to "NERD tree" for VIM. Any suggestions?
- spacemanaki 14y ago
  I assume you mean suggestions for Emacs? I've never used NERD tree (I haven't used TextMate's file browser or this emacs-nav thing either), but have you tried dired? It's built-in to Emacs and accomplishes almost everything I want from a "project explorer" type of thing. It's possible my needs aren't that great though. Visit a directory (C-x C-f) to get into it, and then use this: http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/editors/dired-refcard.gnu.pdf http://flatline.cs.washington.edu/orgs/acm/tutorials/editors...
  - raju 14y ago
    Dired works, but I really like Textmate's (or Sublime Text's) project explorer. Sometimes, at least for me, it's nice to see where a file is in relation with the "big picture". Having a file explorer only open one directory at a time is a tad disorienting. Thanks for the cheatsheet though - Dired is mighty handy :)
- inkel 14y ago
  Guessing you're referring to Emacs and not Vim, I've been using textmate.el [1] and it is just great. [1] http://ozmm.org/posts/textmate_minor_mode.html http://ozmm.org/posts/textmate_minor_mode.html
  - raju 14y ago
    Correct - I am an Emacs user and have always found working in projects hard in emacs. textmate.el is really nice (though with emacs-starter-kit there is a built in find-file-in-project - a "project" being your git repo by default) - But it doesn't solve the problem I am having - that is, being able to see the whole project at the same time within a nested tree structure.

vdm 14y ago

Changelog: http://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/source/list http://code.google.com/p/emacs-nav/source/list

gecko 14y ago

It's not that this isn't useful, but rather that there's an old (but fully functional) way to run Speedbar in the current frame, called sr-speedbar, available at http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SrSpeedbar. I'm not clear what benefit Nav provides that sr-speedbar doesn't (and I know plenty in the reverse, since Speedbar's used by a number of IDE packages for things that have nothing to do with directories. (E.g., CEDET can use it to show the class hierarchy.)

raju 14y ago
Aha! This might actually solve my problem [1] - Thanks! 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999

protez 14y ago

Nav is nothing when you have anything.el.