Re: Visiting a set of files listed in a file

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 13:01:53 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > On Windows, you write a batch file that converts the file's contents
> > into a list of file names, then invokes Emacs with that list of file
> > names.
> 
> It's not very practical...

Why not? you need to write the batch file only once.

> > > If I run the above from MSYS2 shell there is a mismatch with the HOME 
> > > directory and consequently where Emacs reads the init file and where it 
> > > saves the desktop file..
> > 
> > What do you mean by "mismatch with HOME directory"?
> 
> For MSYS2 the HOME is /home/USER (C:\msys2inst\home\USER) for Emacs the HOME 
> is in APPDATA\Roaming, or not?

No, not if you define HOME in the environment.  Then Emacs will follow
it no matter how you invoke it.

> In any case I found this discussion: 
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43225925/windows-cmd-pass-output-of-one-command-as-parameter-to-another
> 
> from which I deduced this command:
> 
> for /F "usebackq delims=" %A in (`type list-of-buffers`) do 
> C:\\Emacs\bin\emacs.exe %A
> 
> With it I have to close Emacs N times (it restarts automatically), where N is 
> the number of file listed. The thing is just _tedious - epsilon_..

Yes, there's a lot of garbage advice on the Internet.  Granted, that
is not what I meant.  See "set /?" for one way of doing that.