Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file

[David Kastrup]

Jesse <jesse.brown@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

Well, you could do

M-! xargs -a your-text-file ls -ld

and then do

M-: (dired-mode) RET

on the resulting Shell output window.

Untested.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum