From: reader@newsguy.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:03:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve1981be.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4832BEF9.5020409@pobox.com
Bernardo Bacic <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com> writes:
> it was a dark and stormy night when Jesse said, On 05/20/2008 04:38 AM:
>> I have a situation where I have a lot of common files i need to edit
>> but they are all in various directories spread across my hard drive.
>> I was trying to come up with a way where I could make a text file that
>> has all the paths to the files I commonly need and somehow open that
>> file into a dired like mode.
[...]
If I might butt in here a moment:
Bernardo writes:
> could it be that find-file-at-point (M-x ffap) is what you are looking for here?
I don't see much of anything happen using that...
First compile a list of files
find dir -type f >dir/file
Now load file into emacs.
With cursor on this line:
dir/new.txt
Pressing M-x ffap shows
Find file or URL: ~/dir/
And that's it. Completion doesn't go anywhere either.
I thought this was supposed to load the file name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-19 18:38 Dired like functionality on a custom text file Jesse
2008-05-19 19:26 ` harven
2008-05-19 20:38 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-19 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2008-05-20 5:01 ` Dmitri Minaev
2008-05-20 11:16 ` Chris McMahan
2008-05-20 12:07 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-20 15:03 ` reader [this message]
2008-05-21 11:39 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-05-21 14:10 ` reader
[not found] ` <mailman.11963.1211387800.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-05-24 5:39 ` Alan
2008-05-24 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 13:31 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 20:54 ` Drew Adams
2008-05-20 17:35 ` Ilya Zakharevich
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