Re: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> Do you mean wildcards?
>
> Wildcards are convenient as well, but primary I had in mind multiple 
> arguments
>
>      tar cvfz f.tar.gz one/two.txt three/four/five.jpg six/seven.org
>
> I would prefer to avoid rambling through directories and marking files 
> when I approximately know location of files. I find it convenient to 
> type and hit TAB (or C-/ in some cases) to confirm that a file exists.

Sorry, but I do not understand what you are describing.
Do you mean that you type partial completion, hit TAB, and get _all_ the
matching candidates completed, separated by spaces?

> At first I though that it might be easier to bind to key sequences some 
> functions that add/remove current text to/from an externally maintained 
> list (perhaps displayed in another buffer) while single item is 
> presented in the minibuffer. However is should be a pain when users 
> configure their preferred completion frameworks.

I think that icicles does exactly this. So does
filechooser-read-file-names that Rahguzar shared.

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