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: viewing random list of files in dired Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:04:28 +0100 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1232283932.889271@arno.fh-trier.de> 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 1232286059 5552 80.91.229.12 (18 Jan 2009 13:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 18 14:42:08 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 1LOXuc-0001mw-Mo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:42:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38509 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LOXtL-0000VH-Q3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:40:43 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1232283995 13277 143.93.54.11 (18 Jan 2009 13:06:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:06:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081018) Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-111-238.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166120 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:61445 Archived-At: Hi, 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. Thanks, -ap