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Håkon Hægland
Håkon Hægland

Reputation: 40718

How do I use dired-read-file-name in Emacs?

I was looking for a method to show a list of filenames in a directory, and then select one of them.

I found this: https://github.com/lawlist/dired-read-file-name and it seemed promising, so I copied it to my emacs direcory and tried:

(require 'dired-read-file-name)

but I get error 

error: Required feature `dired-read-file-name' was not provided

Upvotes: 1

Views: 404

Answers (1)

pmr
pmr

Reputation: 59811

require is not going to work because the source of dired-read-file-name.el does not have a provides expression. You might want to add:

(provide 'dired-read-file-name)

add the end of the file.

Alternatively, you can just load or more low-level load-file.

Also have a look at this.

Upvotes: 3

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