From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Directory name to variable (dired?) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 13:49:50 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20181007214950.GA17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538949203 7350 195.159.176.226 (7 Oct 2018 21:53:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 21:53:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) To: Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 07 23:53:18 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9GzG-0001oJ-Ej for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 23:53:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43610 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9H1M-0001q4-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:55:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49301) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9H0k-0001lm-Uz for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:54:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9Gvy-00055U-8l for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:49:59 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:55760) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9Gvx-0004y2-WC for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 17:49:54 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BE91A24015F; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 13:49:50 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: Emacs Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118189 Archived-At: My Emacs is : GNU Emacs 26.1 Is there a function that returns a directory and full path so that it could be assigned to a variable? Ideally, dired would be a great place to start, as the directory path is at the top of the screen. thanks -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com