I would like to know Emacs' equivalent of Vim's :n, which opens several files according to a glob.
Say I have this directory:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pablo pablo 31 Jun 25 00:59 /home/pablo/tmp/prueba.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pablo pablo 2442 May 9 1913 /home/pablo/tmp/sin_soap.php
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pablo pablo 726 Jun 25 15:20 /home/pablo/tmp/verificar.php
And I want to open all those files. In Vim, I can type
:n *php
and that will give me one buffer for every file; I don't know how to do that in Emacs (when it's already open, of course I can do 'emacs *php' in a shell).
I'm happy with a function that I can call from any buffer via M-x, but if there's a command that I can call in dired-mode (say, edit all marked files or something), that would be beyond cool.
Thanks.
To find a file in Emacs, you use the C-x C-f ( find-file ) command.
Much better to use the multiple buffer feature of emacs. If you are editing the first file and want to start editing the second file, simply use the hot key C-x C-f or the menu selection File->Open File to start the second file. The second file is loaded into its own buffer.
In Emacs, type M-x dired. You will be prompted for the directory to open. Type in the directory to display, or press Return to open the default directory.
M-x copy-file copies the contents of the file old to the file new . M-x copy-directory copies directories, similar to the cp -r shell command. If new is a directory name, it creates a copy of the old directory and puts it in new . Otherwise it copies all the contents of old into a new directory named new .
The ordinary find-file
command, C-xC-f, will accept wildcards and open multiple buffers. From the documentation:
Interactively, or if wildcards is non-nil in a call from Lisp, expand wildcards (if any) and visit multiple files. You can suppress wildcard expansion by setting `find-file-wildcards' to nil.
In your example you'd just type C-xC-f*php
RET.
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