From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris McMahan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 07:16:45 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: <683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211283659 27444 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2008 11:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:40:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 13:41:38 2008 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 1JyQDp-00061k-O0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 13:41:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JyQD5-0002XO-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 07:40:51 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1211282196 16168 166.84.1.5 (20 May 2008 11:16:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 11:16:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:3/+4vhi6CDhl9dzTHq1Z8ZZKUCM= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158794 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:54159 Archived-At: Look at the function `dired-virtual` -- part of the virtual-dired mode in dired-x. The short version is you use dired to view a directory you're interested in, then save that dired buffer to a file. You can then add other dired listings to this file to build the collection you're interested in. When you open the file the next time, use M-x dired-virtual to put it in dired mode. - Chris Jesse writes: > I have a situation where I have a lot of common files i need to edit > but they are all in various directories spread across my hard drive. > I was trying to come up with a way where I could make a text file that > has all the paths to the files I commonly need and somehow open that > file into a dired like mode. Is there anyway I can do this, or even > alternatively possibly easily pass the current line my cursor is on in > that file to the mini buffer when I put in the visit command? -- (. .) =ooO=(_)=Ooo===================================== Chris McMahan | first_initiallastname@one.dot.net =================================================