create links for all marked files in dired

create links for all marked files in dired

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi,
me again :-)

is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?
It would help, when you have a bunch of e.g. images in one
directory...

Greetings!
Fabian

Re: create links for all marked files in dired

[Carsten Dominik]

On 11/25/07, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> me again :-)
>
> is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
> dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?
> It would help, when you have a bunch of e.g. images in one
> directory...

Can you be more specific?  How you like the output in Org-mode to
work?  A link back to dired visiting this directory, or many links to
each individual file?

- Carsten

>
> Greetings!
> Fabian
>
>
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Re: create links for all marked files in dired

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik schrieb am 11/25/2007 02:22 PM:
> On 11/25/07, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> me again :-)
>>
>> is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
>> dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?
>> It would help, when you have a bunch of e.g. images in one
>> directory...
> 
> Can you be more specific?  How you like the output in Org-mode to
> work?  A link back to dired visiting this directory, or many links to
> each individual file?

Many links to each individual file would be great.
Fabian

Re: Re: create links for all marked files in dired

[Phil Jackson]

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Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Dominik schrieb am 11/25/2007 02:22 PM:
>> On 11/25/07, Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> me again :-)
>>>
>>> is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
>>> dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?
>>> It would help, when you have a bunch of e.g. images in one
>>> directory...
>> 
>> Can you be more specific?  How you like the output in Org-mode to
>> work?  A link back to dired visiting this directory, or many links to
>> each individual file?
>
> Many links to each individual file would be great.
> Fabian

Off topic, I know, but you could use this as a temporary measure. I've
only just knocked it up and not really tested it so I'm sure there is
bugs. I might re-factor it soon and give it some options/features.


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#!/usr/bin/env zsh

set -e

function headline {
    depth="${1}"
    text="${2}"

    printf "%${depth}s %s" "" | tr ' ' '*'
    echo " ${text}"
}

function scan_and_populate {
    depth="${1}"
    dir="${2}"

    headline ${depth} "${dir}"

    let "depth += 1"

    for f in $(ls -d "${dir}"/* 2>/dev/null); do
        if [ -d "${f}" ]; then
            scan_and_populate ${depth} "${f}"
        else
            headline ${depth} "[[file://${f}][${${f##*/}%.*}]]"
        fi
    done

    let "depth -= 1"
}

function main {
    scan_dir="${1:-$(pwd)}"
    depth=0

    scan_and_populate ${depth} "${scan_dir}"
}

main "${@}"

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Cheers,
Phil

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Re: create links for all marked files in dired

[Bastien]

Hi Fabian,

Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:

> is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
> dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?

I already suggested something for this here:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4440

If you want to create a list of links from dired and copy this list to
the kill-ring, maybe you can use something like this as well:

(defun my-copy-dired-files-in-kill-ring ()
  "Copy files names in the kill ring."
  (interactive)
  (let ((files (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-filename) nil)))
    (kill-new
     (mapconcat 
      (lambda (f) 
	(concat "[[file:" f "][" 
		(file-name-nondirectory f) "]]"))
      files "\n"))
    (message "%d Org links copied to the kill-ring" (length files))))

Does that help?

-- 
Bastien

Re: create links for all marked files in dired

[Fabian Braennstroem]

Hi to both,

thanks for your help ...

Bastien schrieb am 11/27/2007 02:47 PM:
> Hi Fabian,
> 
> Fabian Braennstroem <f.braennstroem@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> is there a chance to create links from the marked files in a
>> dired buffer using org-mode internal functions?
> 
> I already suggested something for this here:
> 
>   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4440
> 
> If you want to create a list of links from dired and copy this list to
> the kill-ring, maybe you can use something like this as well:
> 
> (defun my-copy-dired-files-in-kill-ring ()
>   "Copy files names in the kill ring."
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((files (dired-map-over-marks (dired-get-filename) nil)))
>     (kill-new
>      (mapconcat 
>       (lambda (f) 
> 	(concat "[[file:" f "][" 
> 		(file-name-nondirectory f) "]]"))
>       files "\n"))
>     (message "%d Org links copied to the kill-ring" (length files))))
> 
> Does that help?

Works great! I was thinking about it , but just in python ;-)
Greetings!