Re: generate some html from directory content

[Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp>]

>   From: sebastien.kirche@free.fr
>   Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>   Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 11:13:17 +0100
>
>   i am looking for an elisp package or routine that could help me to
>   generate a list or a table of <a> tags in a html file corresponding
>   to the content of a directory.
>
>   The directory consist mainly of elisp files with few binaries and
>   pics.
>
>   I would use such a helper to generate a index file of files and
>   then to document that list.

The function 'directory-files' might be useful.  It takes the name of
a directory and returns a list of file names. 

This needs cleaning up (html header etc.), but just as an example:

(defun html-dir-list (dir)
  (interactive "DDirectory name: ")
  (set-buffer (get-buffer-create "html directory listing"))
  (dolist (x (directory-files dir t))
    (insert (concat "<a>" x "</a>"))
    (newline)))

Regards,

Matthew