From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@rimspace.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using variable names as args to interactive functions
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:28:23 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763xzn2nc.fsf@rimspace.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 96f5c9ae-3f50-4f54-9537-92a27cd618e8@f47g2000hsd.googlegroups.com
Stuart <stuart.tett@gmail.com> writes:
> I have some variables which I set at startup with setq. There are a
> bunch of variables that get set. Each is a string representing a
> directory path. I want a function which I can just type the variable
> name and it opens dired with that directory.
You might find it easier to define your paths in the environment, either
before starting Emacs or using `setenv'.
You can then use `find-file' with the environment variable to open
dired, such as:
M-: (setenv "MYDIR" "/home/daniel/example") ret
C-x C-f $MYDIR ret
That should open up /home/daniel/example in dired for you.
This substitution works as expected everywhere, too, so you can open
$MYDIR/foobar and have it open a file under that directory...
Regards,
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-12 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-12 0:53 using variable names as args to interactive functions Stuart
2008-01-12 2:09 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2008-01-12 3:28 ` Daniel Pittman [this message]
2008-01-13 8:40 ` Mathias Dahl
2008-01-15 3:17 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-01-16 1:42 ` Stuart
2008-01-16 3:01 ` Kevin Rodgers
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