Re: A quick way of opening any file with given extension within adirectory hierarchy?

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Peter Tury wrote:
> Drew Adams írta:
>
> > Icicles does what you want. Specifically, command `icicle-locate-file'.
>
> Does it use Emacs' locate? Does it work e.g. on MS Windows also? I
> recently tried locate (and ~dired-find-...) but none of them worked:
> they missed some external programs (locate & find).
>
> I used a not-latest EmacsW32. Maybe newer versions (of patched
> EmacsW32' install) contains these (from MinGW)?


Yes, the installer for EmacsW32 or Emacs+EmacsW32 contains these 
programs. (But they are from gnuwin32.)

Can you look in EmacsW32/gnuwin32/bin to see if they are there? Maybe 
there is some setting that should be preconfigured in EmacsW32.