From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Hanchrow Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get current filename and absolute path of the file in emacs? Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:30:19 -0700 Message-ID: <87abx93pr8.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176698363 17867 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2007 04:39:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:39:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 16 06:39:17 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HdIzk-0000eN-Ni for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:39:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdJ4J-00027m-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:43:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdJ3Y-0001YH-R5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HdJ3X-0001Wt-Av for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:43:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HdJ3X-0001We-53 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:43:11 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HdIyw-0000Hd-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:38:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HdIym-0005J4-8F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from q-static-138-125.avvanta.com ([206.124.138.125]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:38:16 +0200 Original-Received: from offby1 by q-static-138-125.avvanta.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:38:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: q-static-138-125.avvanta.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:l+qktAn3v8FyUJtgp5i6Eq/P1ww= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:42711 Archived-At: >>>>> "QinGW" == QinGW writes: QinGW> I want to put current filename and file path to clipboard QinGW> and I cant get it by short key.how can I implement it? QinGW> Thank a lot. This is what I use: (setq x-select-enable-clipboard t) (defun copy-buffer-file-name (use-backslashes) "Puts the file name of the current buffer (or the current directory, if the buffer isn't visiting a file) onto the kill ring, so that it can be retrieved with \\[yank], or by another program. With argument, uses backslashes instead of forward slashes." (interactive "P") (let ((fn (subst-char-in-string ?/ (if use-backslashes ?\\ ?/) (or (buffer-file-name (current-buffer)) ;; Perhaps the buffer isn't visiting a file at all. In ;; that case, let's return the directory. (expand-file-name default-directory))))) (when (null fn) (error "Buffer doesn't appear to be associated with any file or directory.")) (kill-new fn) (message "%s" fn) fn)) (global-set-key (kbd "") 'copy-buffer-file-name) --