From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Harry Putnam'" <reader@newsguy.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: viewing random list of files in dired
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:48:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <007d01c97994$f99ac400$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hc3wa4zx.fsf@newsguy.com>
> > Function `dired' will accept a list of file names as its first
> > argument. That is the key here. This is all you need, to open Dired
> > using a list `file-names':
> >
> > (dired (cons (generate-new-buffer-name "My Dired")
> > (nreverse (mapcar (lambda (file)
> > (if (file-name-absolute-p file)
> > (expand-file-name file)
> > file))
> > file-names))))
>
> Sorry to butt in right at the end here... but is something more that I
> would need to do for your example to work?
>
> Just evaluating it give me "Symbol's value as variable is
> void: file-names"
Just set `file-names' to a list of files. E.g.:
(setq file-names '("some-file-in-def-dir.el" "/some/abs/file/foo.el"))
No matter how the list of file names is created, it should work.
(FWIW, in Icicles you can create a list of files (in any directories) by
choosing them interactively.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-18 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-18 13:04 viewing random list of files in dired Andreas Politz
2009-01-18 13:54 ` Rupert Swarbrick
2009-01-18 15:10 ` Andreas Politz
2009-01-18 16:15 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-18 17:00 ` Drew Adams
2009-01-18 17:38 ` Harry Putnam
2009-01-18 17:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-01-18 18:28 ` Harry Putnam
2009-01-18 18:45 ` Drew Adams
2009-02-17 14:16 ` David Combs
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