Re: Dired like functionality on a custom text file

[Bernardo Bacic]

> > could it be that find-file-at-point (M-x ffap) is what you are looking for here?
>
> I don't see much of anything happen using that...
>
> First compile a list of files
>
> find dir -type f >dir/file
>
> Now load file into emacs.
>
> With cursor on this line:
> dir/new.txt
>
> Pressing M-x ffap shows
> Find file or URL: ~/dir/
>
> And that's it.  Completion doesn't go anywhere either.
>
> I thought this was supposed to load the file name.
i'm only guessing - it could be due to relative path names;
try changing your command to:
   find `pwd`/dir -type f >dir/file

or just manually edit entries in your 'dir/file' and see if that makes any 
difference