From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Get directory name? Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:44:28 +0200 Message-ID: <48B5BCAC.4050508@gmail.com> References: <48B5BB56.8060606@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219869899 22876 80.91.229.12 (27 Aug 2008 20:44:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:44:59 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 27 22:45:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KYRtn-0006DF-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:45:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32944 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYRsp-0004q7-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYRsa-0004ir-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KYRsY-0004i0-K8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49550 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KYRsY-0004hv-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:34 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.212]:37942) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KYRsX-0000rb-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:44:33 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:63041 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KYRsV-0003e0-5I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:44:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <48B5BB56.8060606@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080827-0, 2008-08-27), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KYRsV-0003e0-5I. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KYRsV-0003e0-5I 3393c98c0d4d8fbe4bed48b47ccf71db X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:103042 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > I can't find a good way to get the last directory name from a directory > path using the current functions for file name handling. There must be > some way ...? > > file-name-nondirectory does not work for a directory path (or, rather it > returns "" which is not what I want). Maybe there should be a > > (defun directory-last-name (directory) > "Returns the last name in a directory path. > ..." Some more thoughts: Actually it can be implemented like this (defun directory-last-name (directory) "Returns the last name in a directory path." (file-name-nondirectory (expand-file-name "." (file-name-as-directory directory)))) At least that works on w32. Any thoughts on adding this?