From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Andreas Politz'" <politza@fh-trier.de>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: viewing random list of files in dired
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:00:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006601c9798e$4f51af00$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005b01c97988$00b8e440$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com>
> > >> is it possible to view a random list of files with dired ?
> > >>
> > >> What I really want is to examine a couple 100 of images from
> > >> different directories as thumbnails with associated filename.
> > >> The names come from the command line. None of the programs I
> > >> have tried (gthumb,gqview,xzgv,feh) can do it.
> ...
> > By random I ment that the files have no particular common property
> > (like coming from the same directory).
> > Creating links in a new directory seems to be the best bet. After
> > the frustration from trying 5 different programs settled down, I
> > modified dired-image to accept a list of files. While the results
> > are pleasing, it just takes to long for > 1000 files.
>
> Yes, and you don't need to create symlinks or otherwise
> modify your file system.
>
> If you use Icicles, you can define a set of arbitrary file or
> directory names and later open Dired for just that set. You can
> save the set persistently, if you like.
>
> You can create the list of file names any way you like - it's
> just a list of names. The names could originally "come from the
> command line", for instance.
>
> You can also create or add to such a set of file names using
> the files that are marked in Dired buffers.
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Icicles_-_Dired_Enhancements
I should add that you can also do this without Icicles - Icicles just makes
things easier.
Function `dired' will accept a list of file names as its first argument. That is
the key here. This is all you need, to open Dired using a list `file-names':
(dired (cons (generate-new-buffer-name "My Dired")
(nreverse (mapcar (lambda (file)
(if (file-name-absolute-p file)
(expand-file-name file)
file))
file-names))))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-18 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 13:04 viewing random list of files in dired Andreas Politz
2009-01-18 13:54 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-01-18 15:10 ` Andreas Politz
2009-01-18 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-18 17:00 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-01-18 17:38 ` Harry Putnam
2009-01-18 17:48 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-18 18:28 ` Harry Putnam
2009-01-18 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-17 14:16 ` David Combs
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