From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Elisp newbie trying a derived mode
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:35:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <efhbo0$j5q$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159470167.933570.91970@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
davex wrote:
> Hello all, my first post here, and I've recently started coding elisp.
> I want a simple method of interactively selecting multiple files or
> directories, and passing the selection list to an external program.
> My first thought was to tweak dired mode, so that I could just navigate
> around dirs, marking files and dirs that I want (with 'm') and then
> have a special key call dired-do-shell-command with something to
> append each marked entry to a text file.
>
> Question: is there something simpler than dired to tweak? All I really
> need is the directory navigation and marking capability.
Why do you need to tweak anything at all, since dired already provides
all that?
--
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-28 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-28 19:02 Elisp newbie trying a derived mode davex
2006-09-28 20:35 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.7564.1159475819.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-09-29 1:49 ` Elisp newbie trying a derived mode (clarifying intent) davex
2006-09-29 9:06 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-09-29 16:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.7597.1159548604.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2006-10-03 7:46 ` Mathias Dahl
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