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From: Xah Lee <xah@xahlee.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: traverse a directory
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 20:30:13 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2a50ecb-2b80-47db-bf5d-f64ccb1e92d4@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5595.1199218943.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Xah Lee wrote:
「if i want to recurse into a directory, do i have to write my own?」

Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
「Take a look at the package find-lisp.el, which is bundled with Emacs
22.  It has infrastructure for what you want.  In particular, there's
the `find-lisp-find-files-internal' function that recursively
traverses a directory.」

Thanks. That does it.

(require 'find-lisp)
(find-lisp-find-files "~/web/" "\\.html$")

  Xah
  xah@xahlee.org
\xAD\xF4 http://xahlee.org/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-03  4:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-01 16:51 traverse a directory Xah Lee
2008-01-01 20:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-01-02  5:43 ` Mike Mattie
     [not found] ` <mailman.5612.1199252679.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-02 18:03   ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-02 19:04     ` Mike Mattie
     [not found]     ` <mailman.5637.1199300789.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-02 19:25       ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-01-03  5:51         ` Xah Lee
2008-01-03 11:16           ` Alexey Pustyntsev
2008-01-03 16:25           ` Joel J. Adamson
     [not found]           ` <bf802645-6c07-46d6-b968-1067c1ff4c7f@d21g2000prf.googlegro ups.com>
2008-01-05 17:47             ` OT: " Johan Lindström
2008-01-05  0:46         ` Mike Mattie
     [not found] ` <mailman.5595.1199218943.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-01-03  4:30   ` Xah Lee [this message]

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