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"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 th

by 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.

by lflux 14y ago

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.