From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Brendan Leber <brendan@brendanleber.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:34:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84855d7f-160b-4886-bede-45d2dea066b1@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC77Q0F6uLoKOnjxTmkcLYgZMj0vo=X5f=c9UVa3n9UEATh7zw@mail.gmail.com>
> > But I guess you are asking about mapping a Lisp function over files.
>
> That is what I meant.
>
> > If you are asking about Dired then presumably you are talking about
> > acting on the marked files (else, why Dired?). If so, and if you
> > use Dired+, then you can use `@', which is bound to command
> > `diredp-do-apply-function', to apply a Lisp function to each of the
> > marked files.
>
> I haven't used Dired+ but it sounds like the `@' key will do exactly
> what I want. Thanks!
Also, if you don't care about using Dired, and you just want to act
on all of the files in a directory that match a regexp, you can just
map your function over the result of calling `directory-files'.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-13 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 17:46 Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File? Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-12 20:36 ` Brendan Leber
2016-10-13 0:34 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-10-13 16:59 ` Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:18 ` Stephen Berman
2016-10-12 21:12 ` John Mastro
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