Re: Visiting a set of files listed in a file

[Angelo Graziosi]

> Il 09/04/2022 13:10 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> ha scritto:
> 
>  
> > 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.

Following this discussion: 
https://superuser.com/questions/516999/passing-output-from-a-dos-command-as-arguments-to-another-command

the best I was able to do is this:

@echo off
Setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
set fls=
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('type list-of-buffers') do set fls=!fls! %%A
C:\LocalApps\Emacs\bin\emacs.exe %fls%


Anyway, I think that the best thing is for Emacs to equip itself with this 
feature...