Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Joost Kremers]

Dan Anderson wrote:
> Often times when I'm coding I'll want to load all files in a particular
> directory into a buffer.  Right now I have to do:
>
> emacs ./file1
>
> Then for each other file
> C-x C-f filename

doesn't 'emacs *' work? it should, but i don't want to shut down emacs in
order to test. ;-)

-- 
Joost Kremers
since when is vi an editor? a discussion on vi belongs in
comp.tools.unusable or something... ;-)

Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Dave Footitt]

You can do it in dired, if you mark all the files you'd like to open, then
use 'dired-do-find-marked-files'

You will need to (require 'dired-x) in your .emacs too.


Dave

Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Dan Anderson]

> doesn't 'emacs *' work? 

Perhaps I should be more specific.  If I ran:

$emacs ./*

It would open up all files in the directory, but this would include
backup files (i.e. beginning with a # and ending with a # or ~).

Is it possible to tell emacs to ignore those files?

I was thinking of something like:

$emacs ./*.php 

If for example I wanted to access all PHP scripts in a directory.  But
then if there were any HTML pages they wouldn't be displayed.  Plus this
involves exiting and restarting emacs.  I was hoping there would be a
more elegant solution.

Thanks in advance,

Dan Anderson

Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Anderson wrote:

> Perhaps I should be more specific.  If I ran:
> 
> $emacs ./*
> 
> It would open up all files in the directory, but this would include
> backup files (i.e. beginning with a # and ending with a # or ~).
> 
> Is it possible to tell emacs to ignore those files?


No, you have to tell your shell not to pass them to emacs.  I don't
usually have autosave files lying around, so exclude backup files I
would run: emacs !(*~)


> I was thinking of something like:
> 
> $emacs ./*.php 
> 
> If for example I wanted to access all PHP scripts in a directory.  But
> then if there were any HTML pages they wouldn't be displayed.


emacs *.php *.html

> Plus this
> involves exiting and restarting emacs.  I was hoping there would be a
> more elegant solution.

The elegant solution is to open the directory in dired, then go from there
(see Dave Footitt's response): emacs .

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Pascal Bourguignon]

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
> emacs *.php *.html
> 
> > Plus this
> > involves exiting and restarting emacs.  I was hoping there would be a
> > more elegant solution.
> 
> The elegant solution is to open the directory in dired, then go from there
> (see Dave Footitt's response): emacs .

I don't use much dired; you could do too:

    M-x server-start RET
    M-x shell RET
    cd $where_you_want
    emacsclient -n [^#]*[^~] RET

or:
    (require 'cl)

    (dolist (f (delete-if 
                 (lambda (path) (not (string-match ".*/[^#/][^/]*[^~/]$" path)))
                 (file-expand-wildcards "/where/you/want/*")))
      (find-file f))

-- 
__Pascal_Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
Do not adjust your mind, there is a fault in reality.

Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Dan Anderson]

Often times when I'm coding I'll want to load all files in a particular
directory into a buffer.  Right now I have to do:

emacs ./file1

Then for each other file
C-x C-f filename

Is there something I can put in my .emacs file to tell emacs that when I
type a directory name under open file that all files in that directory
should be loaded, or even better, a command or set of keys I can press
to automatically load all files in a directory?

Thanks in advance,

-Dan