Re: How to open all files in a directory?

[Andreas Politz]

Pony wrote:
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> Thanks.
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> I think I didn't make myself clear.
> I use ido mode in Emacs, which means when you input `C-x C-f * RET' ,
> emacs will open a new file named " * " instead of open all the files.
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> At present I just close the ido mode first, then open all files, and
> open ido mode again.
> I'd like to know whether there is a smarter way to do this.
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> EMACS makes me want to be much more lazyer!!       ^_^
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When in ido-mode press C-f .This disables ido for the moment.

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> On 11月4日, 上午3时52分, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>> do you know is there a way to open all the files in one directory?
>>> instead of opening it one by one...
>> With Emacs there is always a way - no, several ways. ;-)
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>> `C-x C-f * RET' will open all files in the current directory (or `C-x C-f .*
>> RET' if you also want the dot files). Each file is visited in a buffer, but 
>> the
>> buffers are not all displayed. Use `C-x C-b' to access buffers.
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>> File-name globbing (wildcards) always works with commands such as `find-file'
>> (`C-x C-f') when you hit `RET'.
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