[[http://www.voidtools.com/|Everything]] is a very fast and lightweight desktop search-engine
for MS Windows for finding files scattered around your hard discs
(see http://www.voidtools.com).
The EmacsLisp package [[everything.el]] provides a simple interface to access
Everything's search power via its ftp interface within Emacs.

##everything.el## can also integrate itself into 
[[FindFileAtPoint]]. So, whenever all other methods of ffap fail, let everything
try finding the file at point. Best used in combination with
the exquisite [[Icicles]] package.

[[everything.el]] supports the following search patterns:
* Wildcards
* Boolean Operators
* Case Matching
* Whole Words Matching
* Full Path Matching

Basic steps to setup:

      (add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/everything.el")
      (require 'everything)

Alternatively use the package archive at [[http://marmalade-repo.org|http://marmalade-repo.org]]
and find everything.el via M-x list-packages.

Usage:

       M-x everything           Prompts for a query, let you choose one of the files and opens it.


[new:lynnux:2013-08-08 01:17 UTC]You may get garbled char because everything's output is utf-8, I use everything by ftp, the solution is:

(eval-after-load "everything" '(add-to-list 'network-coding-system-alist '(21 . (utf-8 . utf-8)))) ;; 21 means the default ftp port

I don't try the way via process, you should have a look at `process-coding-system-alist', maybe the code below:

(eval-after-load "everything" '(add-to-list 'process-coding-system-alist '("Everything" . (utf-8 . utf-8))))

--[[lynnux]]
[new]

See also: LocateFilesAnywhere


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