From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to open a list of files? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:12:16 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1231175601.821759@arno.fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231177237 31765 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 17:40:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:40:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 18:41:48 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LJtSV-0000Kq-RO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:41:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52491 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJtRG-0002Mo-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.n-ix.net!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1231175657 19170 143.93.54.11 (5 Jan 2009 17:14:17 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 17:14:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-112-163.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165758 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61092 Archived-At: thth wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file containing pathes to several other files I want to open > (actually it is just the buffer list of a previous session saved in a file). > Opening each file by hand from this list is a bit laborious. So I wonder if > there is a way to open all files contained in a list automatically in emacs? > > Cheers & Thanks for all ideas, > Thomas With already onboard functions : M-x replace-regexp RET .+ RET \,(progn (save-match-data (find-file-noselect \&)) \&) RET or when available M-x shell-command-on-region RET xargs emacsclient -n RET or a macro, approximatetly C-x ( M-x ffap RET RET C-b RET C-n C-0 C-x e or use a function which maps a regexp in a buffer using some function much like the replace-regexp stuff above. I am curious whether such a command already exists. Now I am out of ideas. -ap