From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:57:48 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85ve1aot2b.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211236853 28190 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2008 22:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 22:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 00:41:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JyE2k-0005w4-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 00:41:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48089 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JyE20-0003jN-CN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 18:40:36 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!news.osn.de!diablo2.news.osn.de!news.belwue.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pqp6jQ2yy1NVrSOP8uY9rk3xGyc= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 May 2008 23:57:48 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 27a4300d.newsspool4.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=H0Dg:=^4fY6nBOkdL^Lo7>4IUK5MOK`; S:bhJ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54140 Archived-At: Jesse 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