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A Helm interface to the package manager of your operating system
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Find files in packages #3

Closed Ambrevar closed 6 years ago

Ambrevar commented 6 years ago

Currently the "Find files" action only outputs the files in a buffer. It would be much more useful to chain the action with another Helm session in which we could choose which files to "find".

This would be similar to what is currently done for URL:

    (browse-url (helm-comp-read "URL: " urls :must-match t))))))

Is there such a Helm interface that can take an arbitrary list of files as argument? I'd like to have the actions of Helm Find Files in that session.

@thierryvolpiatto?

thierryvolpiatto commented 6 years ago

Pierre Neidhardt notifications@github.com writes:

Currently the "Find files" action only outputs the files in a buffer. It would be much more useful to chain the action with another Helm session in which we could choose which files to "find".

This would be similar to what is currently done for URL:

(browse-url (helm-comp-read "URL: " urls :must-match t))))))

Is there such a Helm interface that can take an arbitrary list of files as argument? I'd like to have the actions of Helm Find Files in that session.

Not sure to understand what you want here, but helm-find-files is available in any helm-session by hitting C-x C-f (except in hff itself of course).

-- Thierry

Ambrevar commented 6 years ago

No that's not it.

helm-system-packages lists the packages. One action is "Find files" which dumps to a buffer all the filenames of the marked packages.

I want to change that behaviour so that instead of outputting a raw list of files, it fires up a new Helm session over that list of files. The Helm session would have the same actions as helm-find-files, more or less.

I cannot use helm-find-files directly because it lists the files of some directory. I want to list specific files only, i.e. the ones belonging to the marked packages.

thierryvolpiatto commented 6 years ago

Pierre Neidhardt notifications@github.com writes:

No that's not it.

helm-system-packages lists the packages. One action is "Find files" which dumps to a buffer all the filenames of the marked packages.

Ok, I see now.

I want to change that behaviour so that instead of outputting a raw list of files, it fires up a new Helm session over that list of files. The Helm session would have the same actions as helm-find-files, more or less.

Well, you have just to modify the helm-system-packages-print function so that it popup a helm listing files with all actions needed instead of a simple buffer, should not be too hard.

-- Thierry

Ambrevar commented 6 years ago

OK, I was just asking to make sure I'm not re-inventing the wheel.

I'll go for a custom helm then.

Ambrevar commented 6 years ago

Done.