From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: buffer for unopened file? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:36:18 +0300 Message-ID: <87y7dzktfx.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192808562 16924 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 15:42:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:42:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 17:42:43 2007 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 1Iitzj-0008LZ-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:42:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iitzb-000833-Tb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iitxj-0007Kc-Vd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Iitxj-0007Jo-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iitxi-0007JS-LK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:34 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Iitxh-0006EQ-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:40:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IitwU-0001K3-0v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:39:18 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:39:18 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:39:18 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 39 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:u8qWWZaT2k1gl5DJp4XUPMTohE8= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:48579 Archived-At: Quoth "David L" : > I'd like to be able to give emacs a big list of filenames > and have each file appear as if it has been visited with > respect to having it appear in my buffer list. But only > when changing to that buffer do I want it to actually open > the file. Is that possible? It takes a minute or so to open > all of the files and wastes memory to open them all. But > I like to have a menu of the files I might be needing. How about just creating a plain text file, such as: ~/workspace/file1 ~/workspace/file2 . . . ~/workspace/fileN and save it as ~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt Then add the following to your ~/.emacs: (global-set-key "\C-cf" 'find-file-at-point) ;Ctrl-C f to visit file at point ;;; this should be the last line (find-file "~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt") Then all you need to do is select the buffer files-i-often-visit.txt (which will be visited at startup), and using C-p and C-n to navigate up and down in your list, you can simply visit whichever file you like using C-cf . Sebastian P.S. You could add the string -*- mode: view -*- as the first line of file-i-visit-often.txt to ensure the buffer is always visited read-only