From: Niels Felsted Thorsen <nift@maclisp.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set a "default" directory in a function when asking for a file
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:06:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsf3a6kv.fsf@tsuga.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r65b4qrp.fsf@gmail.com
Niels Giesen <niels.giesen@gmail.com> writes:
> Niels Felsted Thorsen <nift@maclisp.org> writes:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a function like this:
>>
>> (defun testfun (file)
>> (interactive "fFile: ")
>> (message file))
>>
>> But it will ask for the file based on, as I understand it, the value
>> of "default-directory" which is buffer-local.
>>
>> Is there a way to specify default-directory just for this function? So
>> it will always start with fx:
>>
>> File: ~/foo/bar/
>>
>> when asking for the file.
>>
>
> Define your function as follows:
>
> (defun testfun (file)
> (interactive (list (read-file-name "File: " "~/foo/bar/")))
> (message file))
Thank you :)
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2008-11-16 15:47 ` set a "default" directory in a function when asking for a file Niels Giesen
2008-11-16 18:06 ` Niels Felsted Thorsen [this message]
2008-11-16 13:39 Niels Felsted Thorsen
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