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: how to open a list of files? Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:10:46 +0100 Message-ID: <87hc4d3f95.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> References: <21289016.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231171109 7779 80.91.229.12 (5 Jan 2009 15:58:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 15:58:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 05 16:59:40 2009 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 1LJrre-0005Tf-Gx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:59:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55314 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJrqP-0006EA-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:58:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJrq2-0006C4-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:57:58 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJrq0-00068x-Ih for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41000 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJrq0-00068V-D6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47808 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJrpz-0000o6-PM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:57:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LJrpw-0002UW-66 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:52 +0000 Original-Received: from 166.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.166]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:52 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 166.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:57:52 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 42 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 166.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:k6KlOw7GOzmPNYNlAEVZYuxqA2w= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61090 Archived-At: Hi, thth writes: > Hi, > > I have a file containing pathes to several other files I want to open > (actually it is just the buffer list of a previous session saved in a file). > Opening each file by hand from this list is a bit laborious. So I wonder if > there is a way to open all files contained in a list automatically in emacs? May be you can use desktop mode to save your session and restore all your buffers. But if you want to do that alone with a list of file name in a file, you can do something like this: ,---- | ELISP> (defun open-all-my-files () | (save-excursion | (find-file "file-containing-file-names") | (goto-char (point-min)) | (while (not (eobp)) | (save-excursion | (find-file (buffer-substring (point-at-bol) | (point-at-eol))) | (display-buffer (current-buffer))) | (forward-line)) | (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))) `---- with a "file-containing-file-names" like: ,---- | /home/you/foo | /home/you/bar | /home/you/somefile `---- -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France