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From: | reader |
Subject: | Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file |
Date: | Tue, 20 May 2008 10:03:49 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Bernardo Bacic <bernardo.bacic@pobox.com> writes: > it was a dark and stormy night when Jesse said, On 05/20/2008 04:38 AM: >> 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. [...] If I might butt in here a moment: Bernardo writes: > could it be that find-file-at-point (M-x ffap) is what you are looking for > here? I don't see much of anything happen using that... First compile a list of files find dir -type f >dir/file Now load file into emacs. With cursor on this line: dir/new.txt Pressing M-x ffap shows Find file or URL: ~/dir/ And that's it. Completion doesn't go anywhere either. I thought this was supposed to load the file name.
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