From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: problems with dired-filename-at-point (was Re: dired: goto directory of a file)
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:57:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40071AD6.5040809@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bu74ms$210o$1@otis.netspace.net.au
leo wrote:
> thanks. i have tried this and it works in dired-find buffers but
> unfortunatly not in dired subdirs:
>
> dired-filename-at-point doesn't work correctly in subdirs. eg the buffer
> shows something like
>
> c:/_home:
> total 17 free 6651216
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 15 15:13 .
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 1 1970 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 6 16:24 emacs
> [...]
>
> c:/_home/emacs:
> total 3
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 6 16:24 .
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 15 15:13 ..
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 15 17:41 user-lisp
> [...]
>
> c:/_home/emacs/user-lisp:
> total 36
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 16 09:23 .
> drwxrwxrwx 0 Jan 6 16:24 ..
> -rw-rw-rw- 4922 Jan 15 17:41 leo-frames.el
>
> now i set the point to the line with leo-frames.el, then
> `dired-filename-at-point' tells me c:/_home/leo-frames.el. that's obviously
> wrong.
Use the the dired-current-directory function (and you won't even have to strip
off "leo-frames.el" to get the directory name).
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-14 11:42 dired: goto directory of a file leo
2004-01-15 12:20 ` Barman Brakjoller
2004-01-15 15:57 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-01-15 22:37 ` problems with dired-filename-at-point (was Re: dired: goto directory of a file) leo
2004-01-15 22:57 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2004-01-28 8:54 ` dired: goto directory of a file Kai Grossjohann
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