branch: elpa/helm
commit 0630ef0962933a1c444ef88f4f526a7a191bf6b3
Author: Thierry Volpiatto <[email protected]>
Commit: Thierry Volpiatto <[email protected]>
Change default value of helm-locate-recursive-dirs-command
The old locate command seems broken now.
---
helm-locate.el | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/helm-locate.el b/helm-locate.el
index a33ec7144f..a14a691059 100644
--- a/helm-locate.el
+++ b/helm-locate.el
@@ -114,17 +114,34 @@ When set, allow browsing recursively files in all
directories of
this list with `helm-projects-find-files'."
:type '(repeat string))
-(defcustom helm-locate-recursive-dirs-command "locate -i -e -A --regex '^%s'
'%s.*$'"
+(defcustom helm-locate-recursive-dirs-command "find %s -type d -regex .*%s.*$"
"Command used for recursive directories completion in `helm-find-files'.
For Windows and `es' use something like \"es -r ^%s.*%s.*$\"
The two format specs are mandatory.
-If for some reasons you can't use locate because your filesystem
-doesn't have a database, you can use find command from findutils
-but be aware that it will be much slower. See `helm-find-files'
-embedded help for more infos."
+We were using locate command in the past like this:
+
+ \"locate -i -e -A --regex '^%s' '%s.*$'\"
+
+But it seems broken in last versions of locate, so we use now the find shell
+command by default which is available on most distributions.
+Here the possible values you can use:
+
+ \"find %s -type d -regex .*%s.*$\"
+ \"find %s -type d -name '*%s*'\"
+
+You can use also the \"fdfind\" command which may be slow at first call because
+it creates an index, but is then very fast on subsequent calls, here is the
+command you can use:
+
+ \"fdfind --hidden --type d --glob '*%s*' %s\"
+
+NOTE: The \"fdfind\" executable name may change on some systems,
+it can be \"fd\" or whatever.
+
+See `helm-find-files' embedded help for more infos."
:type 'string
:group 'helm-files)
