Re: from dired to an org file with list of files with links

[TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>]

On 2020-12-11 03:09, Uwe Brauer wrote:
>> Dear Uwe,
>> * Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> [2020-12-10 22:45]:
> 
>> (require 'dired-x)
> 
>> (defun dired-to-org-links ()
>>   "Generates Org links for Dired files and stores in memory. Yank
>> it in other buffer"
>>   (interactive)
>>   (let* ((files (dired-get-marked-files)))
>>     (when files
>>       (kill-new
>>        (with-temp-buffer
>> 	 (dolist (file files)
>> 	   (let* ((base (file-name-nondirectory file))
>> 		  (link (format "[[file:%s][%s]]\n" file base)))
>> 	     (insert link)))
>> 	 (buffer-string))))))
> 
> Thanks, that is very nice.
> I played a bit around with org-fstree, that is also useful.

Indeed, nice function!

And what great and fast service!  :)

If I may be permitted to pick a nit; Uwe, you may want to prefix the
function with `my-` or `uwe-` or your initials, etc. for namespace
reasons.  Unless of course this is something Jean Louis is planning on
submitting as a patch to dired itself... ;)

Cheers,
TRS-80