Re: dired question

[Stephen Dickey]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > I would like to run a command on files marked in a dired buffer in the
> > order in which they were marked.  Is there a built in way to do this?
> 
> Dired does not keep track of the order in which things were marked.
> It just keeps a bit saying "marked/not-marked".
> 
> > If not, I was thinking of advising dired-mark and
> > dired-get-marked-files to do this.  Does this approach seem reasonable?
> 
> I'm not very familiar with dired's internals, so don't take my word for it,
> but it does seem like a reasonable way.  E.g. just maintain in dired-mark
> a side list of the last N files marked (N being e.g. the number of lines in
> the current buffer) and use it in dired-get-marked-files to sort the
> marked files.

OK, thanks.

It was simpler than I thought to quickley cobble something together to
do what I want. This is what I ended up with:

(require 'dired)
(require 'cl)

(make-variable-buffer-local 'srd-mark-list)

(defadvice dired-mark (before srd-dired-mark)
  (if (equal dired-marker-char ?\040)
      (setq srd-mark-list
            (remove (dired-get-filename) srd-mark-list))
      (setq srd-mark-list
            (adjoin (dired-get-filename)
                    srd-mark-list
                    :test #'equal))))

(ad-activate 'dired-mark)

(defun srd-do-shell-command (command)
  (interactive "scommand: ")
  (dired-do-shell-command command
                          nil
                          (reverse srd-mark-list)))