From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is there any way to open a file whose name is written in another file? Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:43:43 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87r3u2hd9c.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <559d9e65-37dd-4ac0-8cbd-f80e8d91bb83@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423262721 12641 80.91.229.3 (6 Feb 2015 22:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2015 22:45:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 06 23:45:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YJreK-0001uP-Ma for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 23:45:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50816 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YJreK-0005YC-4B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Feb 2015 17:45:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed1.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PL8XrfDtyNkYGBpUPQOdn6Ow5es= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210267 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102544 Archived-At: xiongjieyi@gmail.com writes: > Is there any way to open a file whose name is > written in another file? For example, I want to open > file A in emacs. The path and name of file A is > recorded in file B. The filename of file B is fixed, > but file A is changeable. So I hope emacs can read > the path&name of file A in file B first, and open > file A. Try this: (progn (find-file "b.txt") (goto-char 0) (find-file (thing-at-point 'filename)) ) If you want to do something similar interactively, try this: (defun find-file-at-line (&optional other-window) (interactive "P") (let ((possible-filename (thing-at-point 'filename)) (find-f (if other-window 'find-file-other-window 'find-file)) ) (if (and possible-filename (file-exists-p possible-filename)) (apply find-f (list possible-filename)) (progn (forward-char 1) (find-file-at-line) )))) -- underground experts united