Re: Open many buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

Andrea Crotti wrote:
> I don't see in the emacs functions anything like
> "visit-all-the-buffers-matching-this-regexp".
>
> It would be useful sometimes, now I use something like this in the git
> projects
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (defun open-git-files ()
>   "Visit all the files in the current git project"
>   (interactive)
>   (dolist
>       (file (split-string (shell-command-to-string "git ls-files")))
>     (message "Opening %s" file)
>     (find-file file)))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> But it opens too much often.
>
> Something that
> - ask for a regexp
> - visit all the buffers
> - automatically set up a guessed best way to place them on the frame (or
>   maybe creates a new elscreen for each one for example)
>
> Is there anything like this somewhere?

Not a regexp, but wildcard patterns:

C-x C-f *.c RET

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA