Re: from dired to an org file with list of files with links

[Jean Louis]

* TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> [2020-12-11 19:21]:
> On 2020-12-11 03:09, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> > > Dear Uwe,
> > > * Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> [2020-12-10 22:45]:
> > 
> > > (require 'dired-x)
> > 
> > > (defun dired-to-org-links ()
> > >   "Generates Org links for Dired files and stores in memory. Yank
> > > it in other buffer"
> > >   (interactive)
> > >   (let* ((files (dired-get-marked-files)))
> > >     (when files
> > >       (kill-new
> > >        (with-temp-buffer
> > >    (dolist (file files)
> > >      (let* ((base (file-name-nondirectory file))
> > >             (link (format "[[file:%s][%s]]\n" file base)))
> > >        (insert link)))
> > >    (buffer-string))))))
> > 
> > Thanks, that is very nice.
> > I played a bit around with org-fstree, that is also useful.
> 
> Indeed, nice function!
> 
> And what great and fast service!  :)
> 
> If I may be permitted to pick a nit; Uwe, you may want to prefix the
> function with `my-` or `uwe-` or your initials, etc. for namespace
> reasons.  Unless of course this is something Jean Louis is planning on
> submitting as a patch to dired itself... ;)

It is more Org related. In my opinion all built-in Org hyperlink types
should be already integrated in Org, probably also this is integrated.

The org-store-link actually works in Dired.

The org-insert-last-link works to put link into buffer

So it is just iteration missing.