From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to open a list of files? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:27:04 -0800 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: <81vdstql5j.fsf@myhost.sbcglobal.net> References: <1231175601.821759@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231206066 31328 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2009 01:41:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 01:41:06 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 06 02:42:17 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 1LK0xT-000730-S5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33007 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LK0wE-0000IU-FJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:40:58 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flph200.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flph199.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:uiTHKpTv+sicNUT5ZpKvavCLWyI= Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.202.61.169 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: nlpi061.nbdc.sbc.com 1231205224 ST000 76.202.61.169 (Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:27:04 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:27:04 EST X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONEJVOBTLZOZKN^_TDFZ\@@FXLM@TDOCQDJ@_@FNXACNVOPCWZBL[\YUWHANGYZEFNHFZPNLOBUNSS^_LGEVWEY\PHO@YJSSWBBDT\PFD^ESBTXVCCMTD]JCJLE\_IJMFNRY]SWE[S[D_CNB__ZK^VGVCKHA[S@COB^[@ZQSDFQ\BPMS@DZVUKQTJL Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165767 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:61100 Archived-At: Andreas Politz writes: > 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 There is also find-file-at-point (ffap) and apply-macro-to-region-lines. Chetan