From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple useful function Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:33:42 +0200 Organization: ThierryVolpiatto Message-ID: <871vbhmax5.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <87vd8tk026.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278394661 15859 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2010 05:37:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:37:41 +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 Jul 06 07:37:39 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW0qg-000884-W0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:37:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37909 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OW0qg-0000v1-C5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:37:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39693 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OW0ps-0000uw-Q8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:36:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW0pn-0000vY-MA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:58016) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW0pn-0000vI-BQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 01:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OW0pk-0007k0-KD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:36:40 +0200 Original-Received: from 22.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:36:40 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 22.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:36:40 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 66 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 22.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tq3CVnBujVNBA8QosZ/fogtAKLQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 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:74092 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: >> Is there a way to do this sort of stuff with dired (perhaps involving >> magit)? E.g. how would one limit dired to showing just the files that >> git is tracking? > > If you have an Emacs function that returns those file names (absolute or > relative), then you can open a Dired buffer for just those files. > > You do that by calling `dired' with a cons arg: the list of file names. If the > files are not all in the same directory, then use absolute names. For example: > > (dired "My GIT Files" '("/my/first/file" "/my/2nd/file"...)) Isn't it? ,---- | (dired (cons "My GIT Files" '("/my/first/file" "/my/2nd/file"...))) `---- It seem nice to use that with: ,---- | (dired (cons "my files" (dired-get-marked-files))) `---- Nice feature anyway. > `C-h f dired': > > ,---- > | dired is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `dired.el'. > ... > | (dired DIRNAME &optional SWITCHES) > ... > | If DIRNAME is a cons, its first element is taken as the directory name > | and the rest as an explicit list of files to make directory entries for. > | You can move around in it with the usual commands. > ... > `---- > > You can do more than "move around in it"! All Dired operations work normally on > the files listed. > > The file names can be a mix of local and remote, absolute and relative. > > This is an important and little known Dired feature. IMHO, it is not well > documented. And that's probably why it had a few bugs wrt remote files until > this year. Little attention is drawn to this feature, yet it is very useful. > You can use it to organize files into projects etc. Define specific commands > that give you just the sets of files you want. > > Combine this feature with an ability to bookmark Dired buffers and you have a > flexible way to get quickly to and operate on a given set of files, without > defining specialized commands. With Bookmark+, you can not only bookmark an > arbitrary Dired buffer (saving the current Dired switches, markings, and subdir > showings). You can also open a Dired buffer on the bookmarks currently marked > in the `*Bookmark List*'. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BookmarkPlus > > > > -- Thierry Volpiatto Gpg key: http://pgp.mit.edu/