From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ilya Zakharevich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department. Message-ID: References: <683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211305364 15900 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2008 17:42:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:42:44 +0000 (UTC) Bcc: ilya To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 20 19:43:21 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 1JyVrI-0004sW-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 19:42:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JyVqY-00060b-Fx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 13:41:58 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!ilya Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1211304911 23742 169.229.140.13 (20 May 2008 17:35:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 17:35:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: trn [how to get a version via %-escapes???] with a custom header X-How-To-Reach-Me: The From: address is valid X-How-To-Disable-Cc: Put in the headers the line: Mail-Copies-To: never Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158805 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:54172 Archived-At: [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to Jesse ], who wrote in article <683a41e6-1009-4c2e-9354-b748c6f7ad95@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>: > 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. Is there anyway I can do this, or even > alternatively possibly easily pass the current line my cursor is on in > that file to the mini buffer when I put in the visit command? I'm puzzled why you do not consider a solution like emacs `cat list-of-files` Maybe the files have spaces in their names? Or is the total size larger than what Emacs may handle? Yours, Ilya