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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