RE: Feature request: dired-open-marked-files

[Drew Adams]

> This request came up recently in #emacs and I'm told it has 
> come up before: There didn't seem to be a canned way to do
> this, so I came up with:
> 
> (defun dired-open-marked-files ()
>    (interactive)
>    (let ((distinguish-one-marked nil))
>      (mapc 'find-file
>            (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-file-for-visit)
>                                  current-prefix-arg))))
> 
> I haven't looked into this in any great detail, so there may 
> be a better
> or more obvious way to do it, but I thought the functionality at least
> would make a handy addition to dired.

See `dired-x.el', command `dired-do-find-marked-files', bound to `F' in Dired.