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Ovidiu Predescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> While doing Java development I often feel the need to open a file that
> lives somewhere deep in the directory hierarchy. Even when I know the
> file name, I still have to browse around the directory structure to
> identify the exact location.
> 
> So I came up with a function find-file-recursively which, given a
> regexp and a directory, searches for a file matching the regexp in all
> subdirectories of that directory.
> 
<snip>

I usually find that when I want a feature like this in Emacs it is already
written, just not in a place which is easy to find :)

You might want to check out 'find-dired'.  This does pretty much exactly what
you need :)

Kevin

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