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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Open many buffers
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:54:14 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hun396$5ph$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fx0xdyaz.fsf@gmail.com>

Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I don't see in the emacs functions anything like
> "visit-all-the-buffers-matching-this-regexp".
> 
> It would be useful sometimes, now I use something like this in the git
> projects
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun open-git-files ()
>   "Visit all the files in the current git project"
>   (interactive)
>   (dolist
>       (file (split-string (shell-command-to-string "git ls-files")))
>     (message "Opening %s" file)
>     (find-file file)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> But it opens too much often.
> 
> Something that
> - ask for a regexp
> - visit all the buffers
> - automatically set up a guessed best way to place them on the frame (or
>   maybe creates a new elscreen for each one for example)
> 
> Is there anything like this somewhere?

Not a regexp, but wildcard patterns:

C-x C-f *.c RET

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA




      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-08 21:11 Open many buffers Andrea Crotti
2010-06-08 21:57 ` Drew Adams
2010-06-09 13:49   ` Joel James Adamson
2010-06-09 14:40     ` Drew Adams
2010-06-09  3:54 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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