Re: Open All FIles in a Directory: How can I tell emacs to do this?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Anderson wrote:

> Perhaps I should be more specific.  If I ran:
>
> $emacs ./*
>
> It would open up all files in the directory, but this would include
> backup files (i.e. beginning with a # and ending with a # or ~).
>
> Is it possible to tell emacs to ignore those files?


No, you have to tell your shell not to pass them to emacs.  I don't
usually have autosave files lying around, so exclude backup files I
would run: emacs !(*~)


> I was thinking of something like:
>
> $emacs ./*.php 
>
> If for example I wanted to access all PHP scripts in a directory.  But
> then if there were any HTML pages they wouldn't be displayed.


emacs *.php *.html

> Plus this
> involves exiting and restarting emacs.  I was hoping there would be a
> more elegant solution.

The elegant solution is to open the directory in dired, then go from there
(see Dave Footitt's response): emacs .

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Kevin Rodgers