From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:57:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ve1aot2b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com
Jesse <jesse.brown@gmail.com> 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.
Well, you could do
M-! xargs -a your-text-file ls -ld
and then do
M-: (dired-mode) RET
on the resulting Shell output window.
Untested.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-19 18:38 Dired like functionality on a custom text file Jesse
2008-05-19 19:26 ` harven
2008-05-19 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-19 21:57 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2008-05-20 5:01 ` Dmitri Minaev
2008-05-20 11:16 ` Chris McMahan
2008-05-20 12:07 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-20 15:03 ` reader
2008-05-21 11:39 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-21 14:10 ` reader
[not found] ` <mailman.11963.1211387800.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-24 5:39 ` Alan
2008-05-24 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 20:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 17:35 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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