Re: Visiting a set of files listed in a file

[Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>]

> Il 09/04/2022 12:40 Eli Zaretskii ha scritto:
> 
>  
> > Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 12:15:36 +0200 (CEST)
> > From: Angelo Graziosi
> > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > > How can I visit all those files without doing that manually which could be tedious if the file to be visited are 40-50?
> > > > 
> > > > It would be useful doing that both from command line and inside Emacs...
> > > 
> > > Something like
> > > 
> > >   emacs `cat FILE`
> > > 
> > > I guess.
> > 
> > Oh, yes but it works on unix-like systems. And on Windows? I assume to run some command from DOS prompt.. Which command? 
> 
> On Windows, you write a batch file that converts the file's contents
> into a list of file names, then invokes Emacs with that list of file
> names.

It's not very practical...

> 
> > If I run the above from MSYS2 shell there is a mismatch with the HOME directory and consequently where Emacs reads the init file and where it saves the desktop file..
> 
> What do you mean by "mismatch with HOME directory"?

For MSYS2 the HOME is /home/USER (C:\msys2inst\home\USER) for Emacs the HOME is in APPDATA\Roaming, or not?

In any case I found this discussion: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43225925/windows-cmd-pass-output-of-one-command-as-parameter-to-another

from which I deduced this command:

for /F "usebackq delims=" %A in (`type list-of-buffers`) do C:\\Emacs\bin\emacs.exe %A

With it I have to close Emacs N times (it restarts automatically), where N is the number of file listed. The thing is just _tedious - epsilon_..

I think you should simplify this allowing to do this also inside Emacs wint an "M-x ..." command.