Re: Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>]

Eric Brown <eric.c.brown@mac.com> writes:

> I am looking for a "QuickLook" feature for Emacs. For example, when
> scrolling through a file list in dired (or sunrise commander):
>
>  - is it possible to automatically show the contents of the file under
>    point in a second window? But if point is moved, quickly move along
>    and show the next file/image whatnot?
>
>  - is there a "hold-down-button" to view, and let off button to resume
>    browsing the file list?
>
> I currently use C-x 1 or C-x o q approaches, but I usually end up with
> e a bunch of buffers or sore fingers when going through many files.
>
> Does anyone have suggestions?  I apologize if the answer is sitting in
> the Emacs manual.

There *is* an Emacs mode for putting files into a group/list and then operate
on the whole list of files - but unfortunately I don't remember its name
anymore. It seemed quite powerful (and works with icicles etc).

And then there are
[[http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OccurMode#IciclesOccur][multi-occur]]
and 'M-x find-grep' that both offer a second result window allowing to
scroll through the search results in several buffers.

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten