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RE: Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing
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Drew Adams |
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RE: Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing |
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Fri, 18 Oct 2013 09:55:27 -0700 (PDT) |
> If you hold down `Control' while doing that (i.e., `C-down') then
> you act on each file in turn. (You can use `C-RET' to act on a file
> that you have cycled to using just `up' or `down'.)
...
> You could easily define a command that would do that, say putting
> the `kill-buffer' action on a timer or associating it with an event
> (e.g. visiting the next file).
Here is a quick command definition that does that. It lets you use
the Icicles alternate action keys, `C-S-RET', `C-S-down', etc., which
are analogous to the main action keys, `C-RET', `C-down', etc. (which
visit the candidate), to visit the candidate in `view-mode' and at
the same time kill the buffer of the last such visited candidate.
(defun my-find-file ()
"Like `icicle-find-file', but alt action views file temporarily.
Alternate action keys such as `C-S-down' visit the candidate file in
`view-mode' and kill the buffer of the last such viewed candidate."
(interactive)
(let ((icicle-candidate-alt-action-fn
(lambda (file)
(when (and my-last-viewed
(get-file-buffer my-last-viewed))
(kill-buffer (get-file-buffer my-last-viewed)))
(setq my-last-viewed (abbreviate-file-name file))
(view-file file)
(select-frame-set-input-focus
(window-frame (active-minibuffer-window))))))
(icicle-find-file-of-content)))
(defvar my-last-viewed nil
"Last file viewed by alternate action of `my-find-file'.")
So you would:
1. Use `M-x my-find-file' (or bind it to a key - e.g., `C-x C-f').
2. Optionally type part of a file name, to limit the matching names.
3. Optionally use `down' or `up' to cycle among file names.
4. Use `C-S-down' to visit the next file in order.
5. Repeat #4 to see other files in order.
6. Repeat #2 or #3 to see other sets of files.
7. End with `RET' to choose a file to visit or `C-g' to cancel.
Each file buffer you visited with `C-S-down' was killed when you
viewed the next one. You can also mix in `C-down' or `C-RET' to
also visit files whose buffers you do not want to kill
automatically. (Change `view-file' to `find-file' if you don't
want to visit in `view-mode', which is read-only.)
[By default, the alternate action for `icicle-find-file' is
`icicle-alt-act-fn-for-type', which prompts you for a file-
appropriate action to use on the particular candidate chosen for
the action. Command `my-find-file' just substitutes a different
alternate action function (for all candidates you choose).]
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- Re: Quickly Viewing Files in a File List, and then Quickly Closing, Alan Schmitt, 2013/10/18
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