From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Elisp newbie trying a derived mode Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:35:38 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1159470167.933570.91970@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159475858 20501 80.91.229.2 (28 Sep 2006 20:37:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 20:37:38 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 28 22:37:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2dC-00048X-IS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:37:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2dB-00044Y-NB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:37:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2cs-00043M-2z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2cq-00042E-K9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2cq-000429-CS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:36:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GT2hy-0001WJ-VJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:42:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GT2cW-0003y6-HN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:36:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:36:36 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:36:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1159470167.933570.91970@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 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:37704 Archived-At: 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