> I also continue to roam the web in search for > new ones, and I continue to welcome suggestions.
I've suggested it before ;-) http://people.debian.org/~psg/elisp/ff-paths.el This code allows you to use C-x C-f normally most of the time, except that if the requested file doesn't exist, it is checked against a list of patterns for special paths to search for a file of the same name. Examples: - a file extension of .bib will cause to search the path defined in $BSTINPUTS or $BIBINPUTS for the file you requested. - a file extension of .h will cause the /usr/include/ and /usr/local/include/ directory trees to be searched. - a file extension of .sty causes a search of TEXINPUTS and of all directories below /usr/lib/texmf/tex/ - a file extension of .el causes a search of the path set in the emacs variable load-path. - If the aboves searches don't return a match, the filename is searched for using the `locate' command (if available on your system). - gzip-compressed files (.gz) will also be found by ff-paths if the package jka-compr is present. If you use some other package, simply set the ff-paths-gzipped variable to t: If one file is found, or many files of the same name are found, then the *completions* buffer is displayed with all possibilities, including the non-existing path you first provided. Selecting it creates the new file. - I need to update it to use defcustom, but it's been a reliable package for me for years.
