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Re: buffer for unopened file?
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: buffer for unopened file? |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:07:13 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) |
Quoth "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>:
>> > I'd like to be able to give emacs a big list of filenames
>> > and have each file appear as if it has been visited with
>> > respect to having it appear in my buffer list. But only
>> > when changing to that buffer do I want it to actually open
>> > the file. Is that possible? It takes a minute or so to open
>> > all of the files and wastes memory to open them all. But
>> > I like to have a menu of the files I might be needing.
>>
>> How about just creating a plain text file, such as:
>> ~/workspace/file1
>> ~/workspace/file2
> ...
>> ~/workspace/fileN
>> and save it as ~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt
>> Then add the following to your ~/.emacs:
>> (global-set-key "\C-cf" 'find-file-at-point)
>> (find-file "~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt")
>> Then all you need to do is...
>
> You don't need to do all that. Just use Dired. Put this in your .emacs:
> (require 'dired-x)
>
> Then, in Dired:
>
> 1. Mark each of the files you want to visit (without displaying).
I'm no expert on dired-x (and apologies if C-u F doesn't actually visit
any files) but I think he wants the list of files to hand without even
_visiting_ them, let alone displaying them.
"It takes a minute or so to open all of the files and wastes memory to
open them all."
Sebastian
- buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Amy Templeton, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Sebastian Tennant, 2007/10/19
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?,
Sebastian Tennant <=
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/19
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/19
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- RE: buffer for unopened file?, Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, Dieter Wilhelm, 2007/10/20
- Icicles and Emacs [was: buffer for unopened file?], Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Message not available
- Icicles integration into CVS emacs (was: buffer for unopened file?), Giles Chamberlin, 2007/10/23
- Re: buffer for unopened file?, David L, 2007/10/21