Re: Mac - why no proxy badge for dired mode?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Sean O'Rourke wrote:
> merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:
>> Ahh, actually, it seems to always represent *my* home directory.
>> So that's not working.  I should have tried more cases.
> 
> I've currently added
> 
>     (setq buffer-file-name dired-directory)
> 
> to dired-mode-hook, and that seems to do what you want.  Now to
> see what it breaks...

I suspect the case where dired-directory is a wildcard spec or a list
will cause problems.  Would default-directory be a good fallback for
mac_update_proxy_icon to use, when buffer-file-name is nil?

,----
| dired-directory is a variable defined in `dired.el'.
| Its value is nil
|
| Documentation:
| The directory name or wildcard spec that this dired directory lists.
| Local to each dired buffer.  May be a list, in which case the car is the
| directory name and the cdr is the list of files to mention.
| The directory name must be absolute, but need not be fully expanded.
|
| [back]
`----


-- 
Kevin