From: Brendan Leber <brendan@brendanleber.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:36:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC77Q0F6uLoKOnjxTmkcLYgZMj0vo=X5f=c9UVa3n9UEATh7zw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b16acf04-e9a1-4be8-ba4a-32cd56a93a68@default>
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> But I guess you are asking about mapping a Lisp function over files.
That is what I meant.
> If you are asking about Dired then presumably you are talking about
> acting on the marked files (else, why Dired?). If so, and if you
> use Dired+, then you can use `@', which is bound to command
> `diredp-do-apply-function', to apply a Lisp function to each of the
> marked files.
I haven't used Dired+ but it sounds like the `@' key will do exactly
what I want. Thanks!
B
--
C++ tries to guard against Murphy, not Machiavelli. - Damian Conway
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-12 20:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 17:46 Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File? Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-12 20:36 ` Brendan Leber [this message]
2016-10-13 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-13 16:59 ` Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:18 ` Stephen Berman
2016-10-12 21:12 ` John Mastro
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