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New version of Emacs Nav is up

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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 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.

I agree, although I am yet to find something similar to "NERD tree" for VIM. Any suggestions?

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 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 :)

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

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.

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. 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.)

Aha! This might actually solve my problem [1] - Thanks!

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3913999

Nav is nothing when you have anything.el.

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

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