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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 12:33:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878qy4jgpn.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v70432$51b$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> Do you mean wildcards?
>
> Wildcards are convenient as well, but primary I had in mind multiple 
> arguments
>
>      tar cvfz f.tar.gz one/two.txt three/four/five.jpg six/seven.org
>
> I would prefer to avoid rambling through directories and marking files 
> when I approximately know location of files. I find it convenient to 
> type and hit TAB (or C-/ in some cases) to confirm that a file exists.

Sorry, but I do not understand what you are describing.
Do you mean that you type partial completion, hit TAB, and get _all_ the
matching candidates completed, separated by spaces?

> At first I though that it might be easier to bind to key sequences some 
> functions that add/remove current text to/from an externally maintained 
> list (perhaps displayed in another buffer) while single item is 
> presented in the minibuffer. However is should be a pain when users 
> configure their preferred completion frameworks.

I think that icicles does exactly this. So does
filechooser-read-file-names that Rahguzar shared.

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-14 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-07  7:22 Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names? Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 13:26 ` Daniel Martín
2024-07-07 15:56   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 16:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 17:18       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 17:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 17:47           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-07 17:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-07 21:24               ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-13 13:57                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 18:56                   ` Drew Adams
2024-07-14 12:38                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 17:23                       ` Drew Adams
2024-07-15 18:56                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-15 19:44                           ` Drew Adams
2024-07-17 17:21                             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-17 19:49                               ` Drew Adams
2024-07-13 13:43               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 13:53                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-13 14:15                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-13 14:28                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-13 16:56                       ` dog-wagging systems chad
2024-07-14 12:16                       ` Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names? Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 13:11                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-15 18:52                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-15 19:22                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-15 19:52                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-16 10:05                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 11:13                                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 12:05                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:30                                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 16:35                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:40                                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-23 17:48                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-23 16:02                                     ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-23 17:35                                     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2024-07-16  5:09                             ` Yuri Khan
2024-07-13 14:19                 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-13 14:19                   ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-08 12:00       ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-13 14:00         ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14  9:00           ` Max Nikulin
2024-07-14 12:33             ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2024-07-15 12:12               ` Max Nikulin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-07-13 16:28 Rahguzar
2024-07-14 12:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-07-14 20:29   ` Rahguzar

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