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: build a macro that opens a directory and prompts for file name Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:09:39 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87f0e43c-d0e9-45eb-8d4f-ae5c7745a2a3@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4r5tz7qrqjh.fsf@one.net> <7cwscil6fu.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> <873af5xdyh.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> <87ocxthvrw.fsf@dell-desktop.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233130220 999 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2009 08:10:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:10:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 28 09:11:34 2009 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 1LS5WE-0007EY-6d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:11:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40262 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Uw-0000r9-CU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:10:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Uc-0000r0-WC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:09:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Ub-0000qT-MU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:09:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47390 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5Ub-0000qP-FQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:46324 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 1LS5Ua-0004oh-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 03:09:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LS5UV-0006sc-HC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:09:43 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:09:43 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:09:43 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <87ocxthvrw.fsf@dell-desktop.example.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:61719 Archived-At: roodwriter@ureach.com wrote: > Bookmarks, which I use, work great for small numbers of > files. But since I generate tons of small files, I keep an > index list of files, with their descriptions, plus the > entire path and file name for that file. So they look > something like this: > > /home/rod/vacation.txt How I spent my summer vacation. > > I have a macro that copies the entire file name and path and > pastes it into C-x C-f. I've bound it to a function key so > my index kind of works like a hyperlink. If you're visiting your index file, then `M-x find-file-at-point' will do the trick. Or just `C-x C-f' with this in your ~/.emacs: (ffap-bindings) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA