Re: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Daniel Martín <mardani29@yahoo.es> writes:

>> I feel that such command should exist, but I cannot find it.
>
> You can read each filename by calling read-file-name in a loop, ending
> with RET.  There is multi-isearch-read-files, but the prompt message is
> coupled to isearch; it should be easy to generalize this function.

That indeed works, but it is far from ideal:

1. It is not very extendable via helm/consult/ivy
2. When x-file-dialog is used, it is extremely annoying to run it in a loop

I am wondering if `read-file-name' could be extended to read multiple
file names at once.

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