Re: Q: Is there a built-in way to read multiple file names?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Rahguzar <rahguzar@zohomail.eu> writes:

>> Sure, but I want the same thing to work for non-helm users.
>> Preferably, without having to write helm-specific/ivy-specific/etc code.
>
> If you want a mostly completing-read interface for this task, maybe the
> function filechooser-read-file-names [1] from my GNU ELPA package
> filechooser can help you. It uses a group-function to distinguish
> selected files from the rest. It works pretty well with vertico but I
> think should work with any UI which supports group-function well. It is
> entangled with some details of the package so probably not directly
> useful but I think adapting to an API similar to read-file-name is not
> too hard and hopefully can help with something similar to serve Org's
> needs.

Yes, it is quite similar to what I described

          ------------- completions -----------------
          [selected files group]
          -rw-r--r--  1 yantar92 yantar92 35151 Jun 25 10:22 COPYING <MARKED>
          [candidates group]
          drwxr-xr-x  8 yantar92 yantar92  4096 Jul 13 16:04 .git
          -rw-r--r--  1 yantar92 yantar92  1044 Jun 25 10:22 .gitignore
          -rw-r--r--  1 yantar92 yantar92    95 Jun 25 10:22 .gitmodules
          ------------------- minibuffer ------------------------
          Choose files: git

I tried using 

(let ((filechooser-filters '(("All" always . t)))
      (filechooser-use-popup-frame nil))
  (filechooser-read-file-names "Files: "))

M-TAB selects file.
I did not find how to remove selected file.

The main problem is that it is not built-in, and I would like to get
something in the core to cater multi-file prompts.

A side note: The usual /old/path/to/file/~/restart/path does not work as 
expected.

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