From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: buffer for unopened file? Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:42:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1192819314 21740 80.91.229.12 (19 Oct 2007 18:41:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:41:54 +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 20:41:55 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 1Iiwn2-0006Ey-SN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iiwmd-0006aq-1K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:41:19 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:42:13 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sgWmQQiNNaLmAvvPc478zHagFF4= Original-Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-E1HBjzSpWURxNn8fRNiHdejPlJty8QzGg6wRgXby/6iWWhEjuO3NT0OBU2v2gUl5iwhYNzuo6GzeeHc!o6RRa3b2WoT/6CoO1O7ebMOK5d0MGhhuuOQqXmVDtdjdxRIeJGF59ml1Pd0KgHmijosUTbNPHjNu!coygipjv5/z6lotMqg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153084 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:48591 Archived-At: > 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. I don't think there's such a feature anywhere. You'll probably have more luck looking for a way to do "file-switching" like that. For example, you may want to take a look at fileset.el. Stefan