From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired question Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 06:23:54 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <984dfe61-81c1-45a3-8f33-dc91a78400d3@s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com> References: <3a279f01-b2bd-4336-a7af-f752b386d8d8@x41g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211204472 6585 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2008 13:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:41:12 +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 May 19 15:41:50 2008 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 1Jy5cV-0003Iq-Bo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 15:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37744 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jy5bl-0007zA-F5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 May 2008 09:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 46 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1211203434 17119 127.0.0.1 (19 May 2008 13:23:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 13:23:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s33g2000pri.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158764 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:54130 Archived-At: harven wrote: =C2=ABIs there some keybinding or command in Dired that open in background all marked files (that is, put them in buffers, without actually displaying them in windows) ?=C2=BB in addiction to what Drew Adams's reply... I also had this question, and i think i've seen this asked at least 3 times here. So perhaps emacs developers can consider moving it into dired. For me, i pull the function out from dired-x and put into my .emacs, because loading dired-x changed some behavior of dired i didn't like. (dont remember what it was). The function to pull are: dired-do-find-marked-files dired-simultaneous-find-file Xah xah@xahlee.org =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 "Drew Adams" wrote: > Load library dired-x.el, then, in Dired, mark the files, then use `F' with= a > prefix arg: `C-u F'. > > To find this out: Consult the Emacs manual, which mentions dired-x.el. The= n in > Dired mode, do `C-h m' to get info about the mode. > > Unfortunately, the doc string for `F' (via `C-h k F'), which is command > `dired-do-find-marked-files', says only this: "With optional NOSELECT just= find > files but do not select them." What it neglects to mention is that the opt= ional > argument NOSELECT corresponds to using a prefix argument (`C-u'). > > Put this in your init file to get dired-x.el: (require 'dired-x) > Or load it manually: `M-x load-library dired-x'.