Emacs. Helm package. How find files in folder (not a git folder) and all subfolders?

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Windows 10 (64 bit), Emacs 25.1, Helm package.

To find file (e.g. myfile.txt) in any folder (not git, not project file) I use command helm-find-file. It's work. OK.

But now I need to find myfile.txt in current folder AND all subfolders. How I can do this by helm package?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 20 '17 at 02:55

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There's two ways that should work for you. In both cases, first use helm-find-files.

1) Once you're in the directory that you want to start your search from, hit C-u C-x C-d (this runs helm-browse-project recursively). Now you can type the filename that you're looking for and it should search in all subdirectories.

2) Alternatively, again from helm-find-files, hit C-c / (this effectively runs find (not sure how well this will work in Windows)).

answered May 20 '17 at 02:55

Alejandro C.

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not help. My folder is NOT project folder. It's simple folder. – Alexei May 20 '17 at 07:50
That doesn't matter. Browse project will still do it. Did you try it? – Alejandro C. May 20 '17 at 20:54
I try but nothing happen. See screenshot – Alexei May 21 '17 at 10:29
from Emacs documentation: (helm-browse-project ARG) Preconfigured helm to browse projects. Browse files and see status of project with its vcs. Only HG and GIT are supported for now. – Alexei May 21 '17 at 16:54
I want to create a function that uses helm-find-files in a specific directory recursively. Is this possible? – Emmanuel Goldstein Jun 22 '22 at 19:33

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '19 at 21:07

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Using helm-find-files followed by the C-c / command effectively runs helm-find which lets you type in a filename to search for from the current directory. You can also just call helm-find directly or helm-find-1 if calling from elisp code.

answered Sep 20 '19 at 21:07

scytale

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I'm not more use helm. I use ido-mode. – Alexei Sep 21 '19 at 07:58

Emacs. Helm package. How find files in folder (not a git folder) and all subfolders?

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