Re: How to put default-directory into kill-ring?

[Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>]

Dnia 2014-02-14, o godz. 13:59:06
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> napisał(a):

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > We could provide such a feature, of course.  If you have a good UI
> > for it, please tell.
> 
> FWIW, my two cents: There are surely different use cases.  Another
> scenario, which is probably different from Marcin's: Getting paths to
> other window system applications.  That can even be another Emacs
> instance where you want to try and load a file you edited in the first
> instance.  But most often, I need the path of a file or directory to
> be pasted into another application, e.g. for opening or save-to
> dialogues.
> 
> My approach for that problem is the following:
> 
> Double clicking on the buffer name in the mode-line pushes its path
> into the kill-ring and into the primary selection.  Double clicking
> on a file in dired does the same.  Using the mouse for this is quite
> convenient, because you can continue switching to the other
> application and paste the path there without switching input device.

Interesting.  I hate using the mouse (even for switching applications),
so definitely not for me.

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Adam Mickiewicz University