Re: buffer for unopened file?

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth "David L" <idht4n@gmail.com>:
> I'd like to be able to give emacs a big list of filenames
> and have each file appear as if it has been visited with
> respect to having it appear in my buffer list.  But only
> when changing to that buffer do I want it to actually open
> the file.  Is that possible?  It takes a minute or so to open
> all of the files and wastes memory to open them all.  But
> I like to have a menu of the files I might be needing.

How about just creating a plain text file, such as:


 ~/workspace/file1
 ~/workspace/file2
 .
 .
 .
 ~/workspace/fileN

and save it as ~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt

Then add the following to your ~/.emacs:

 (global-set-key "\C-cf" 'find-file-at-point) ;Ctrl-C f  to visit file at point 

 ;;; this should be the last line
 (find-file "~/workspace/files-i-often-visit.txt")

Then all you need to do is select the buffer files-i-often-visit.txt
(which will be visited at startup), and using C-p and C-n to navigate up
and down in your list, you can simply visit whichever file you like
using C-cf <RET>.

Sebastian

P.S. You could add the string -*- mode: view -*- as the first line of
     file-i-visit-often.txt to ensure the buffer is always visited
     read-only