Re: Visiting a set of files listed in a file

[James Thomas]

Angelo Graziosi wrote:

> Can Emacs visit a set of files listed in a file?
>
> For example, I have a text file with
>
> /path_to/file1.f90
> /path_to/file2.txt
> /path_to/file3.c
> /path_to/file4.tex
> ....
>
> How can I visit all those files without doing that manually which
> could be tedious if the file to be visited are 40-50?
>
> It would be useful doing that both from command line and inside Emacs...

For from inside Emacs:
What I've found is that putting the buffer in dired-virtual-mode (from
dired-x) and then setting

(setq directory-listing-before-filename-regexp "^\*? *")

...means that you can use it just like a dired buffer. So type t and F
to visit all the files.

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