From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dired: goto directory of a file Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:57:44 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4006B878.5020501@yahoo.com> References: <1c58a7c3.0401150420.7ffe6306@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1074185167 14575 80.91.224.253 (15 Jan 2004 16:46:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 15 17:46:04 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AhAdA-0007AD-00 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:46:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1Ah9vU-0001hj-D3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:00:56 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1074182261 14366004 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120127 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16071 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16071 Barman Brakjoller wrote: >>in a dired buffer (particu;ar in a dired-find buffer) it would be very >>handy to be able to jump to the containing directory of a file: >> >>eg. the dired buffer shows the line >> >> -rw-r--r-- 1 leo staff 618385 30 Nov 08:29 Audio/Apps/iCDc4.3.3.dmg.sit >> >>then just jump to the directory Audio/Apps in a new dired window. >> > > I came up with the following function which works in most cases I > guess: > > (defun dired-open-containing-directory () > "Opens the directory where the file at point is located" > (interactive) > (let ((file (dired-filename-at-point))) > (string-match "\\(.*/\\)" file) > (find-file (substring file 0 (match-end 1))))) > > Enjoy! > > If there is some shorter/better way to extract the path from the full > filename and path, the function could be even shorter, but I didn't > find any function that does that. C-h f file-name-directory It's described in detail in the File Name Components node of the Emacs Lisp manual; you might also want to browse the other subnodes of the File Names node. -- Kevin Rodgers