From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Opening a list of files in Emacs Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:02:56 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ejtecmun.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: <1160617228.713168.214220@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160620873 5742 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 02:41:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:41:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 12 04:41:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXqVH-0007GE-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 04:40:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GXqVG-0003nD-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:40:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Trace: individual.net toLo3jsTtwuNrVQiNirHxg1NNT4Re/BZhAXlLpHeLp6rrOIu3k Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ufRBhiWgnOv/upwEoi/0IceoaVo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142372 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:37993 Archived-At: venu.nayar@gmail.com writes: > I have a file containing a list of files (full-pathname), one per line. > How do I open this list of files from Emacs? Is there a elisp package > to do this? (defun text-file-contents (path) "Returns a list of strings, the lines in the text file at path." (let ((lines '())) (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents path) (goto-char 0) (while (< (point) (point-max)) (push (buffer-substring-no-properties (progn (beginning-of-line) (point)) (progn (end-of-line) (point))) lines) (forward-line 1))) (nreverse lines))) (defun find-file-of-files (filename) (interactive (find-file-read-args "Find file of files: " nil)) (dolist (file (text-file-contents filename)) (find-file file))) Perhaps: (defun string-trim (bag string) (let* ((margin (format "[%s]*" (regexp-quote bag))) (trimer (format "\\`%s\\(\\(.\\|\n\\)*?\\)%s\\'" margin margin))) (replace-regexp-in-string trimer "\\1" string))) (defun find-file-of-files (filename) (interactive (find-file-read-args "Find file of files: " nil)) (dolist (file (mapcan (lambda (path) (setf path (string-trim " \t" path)) (if (or (string= "" path) ; empty lines (= ?# (aref path 0))) ; comments '() (list path))) (text-file-contents "file-of-pathnames"))) (find-file file))) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ The rule for today: Touch my tail, I shred your hand. New rule tomorrow.