From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: find-alternate-file from dired wildcard dir Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:18:24 -0600 Organization: IHS Engineering, Electronic Systems Development Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3CB724F0.FBB19D10@ihs.com> References: <3CB70635.620302DC@ihs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018635508 23913 127.0.0.1 (12 Apr 2002 18:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5cy-0006DZ-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:18:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5cx-0000h8-00; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:18:27 -0400 Original-Received: from sjc3-1.relay.mail.uu.net ([199.171.54.122]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16w5cV-0000ek-00 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 14:17:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.fu-berlin.de by sjc3sosrv11.alter.net with ESMTP (peer crosschecked as: mail.fu-berlin.de [160.45.11.165]) id QQmkhl01413 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:17:58 GMT Original-Received: by mail.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.2.0.98) from Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (160.45.10.36) with esmtp id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:17:57 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.fu-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 20:17:57 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: 170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 25 X-Orig-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 X-Orig-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1018635476 976410 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 i86pc) X-Accept-Language: en Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:616 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:616 Kevin Rodgers wrote: > > Dan Jacobson wrote: > > > > find-alternate-file prompts with the current filename -- quite > > helpful. However if it is in a dired wildcard directory, e,g, from C-x d > > *.c then this doesn't work. The *.c isn't even available from M-n either. > > Here's a workaround to make it available via `M-n': ... Sorry, that breaks find-alternate-file outside of Dired buffers: (defadvice find-alternate-file (around dired-directory activate) "In Dired, use `dired-directory' as `buffer-file-name' when called interactively." (let ((buffer-file-name (if (and (interactive-p) (eq major-mode 'dired-mode) (stringp dired-directory)) dired-directory buffer-file-name))) ad-do-it)) -- Kevin Rodgers