RE: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?

[Drew Adams]

> > But I guess you are asking about mapping a Lisp function over files.
> 
> That is what I meant.
> 
> > If you are asking about Dired then presumably you are talking about
> > acting on the marked files (else, why Dired?).  If so, and if you
> > use Dired+, then you can use `@', which is bound to command
> > `diredp-do-apply-function', to apply a Lisp function to each of the
> > marked files.
> 
> I haven't used Dired+ but it sounds like the `@' key will do exactly
> what I want.  Thanks!

Also, if you don't care about using Dired, and you just want to act
on all of the files in a directory that match a regexp, you can just
map your function over the result of calling `directory-files'.