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Re: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?


From: Brendan Leber
Subject: Re: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 13:36:53 -0700

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:

> But I guess you are asking about mapping a Lisp function over files.

That is what I meant.

> If you are asking about Dired then presumably you are talking about
> acting on the marked files (else, why Dired?).  If so, and if you
> use Dired+, then you can use `@', which is bound to command
> `diredp-do-apply-function', to apply a Lisp function to each of the
> marked files.

I haven't used Dired+ but it sounds like the `@' key will do exactly
what I want.  Thanks!

B

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