* parent directories of directories
@ 2010-08-23 19:48 Jonas Bernoulli
2010-08-23 20:31 ` Jonas Bernoulli
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From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2010-08-23 19:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
How does one get the parent directory of a directory in a way that
works on all supported platforms?
For regular files `file-name-directory` can be used but for
directories this just returns the given argument.
One could use `(file-name-directory (substring 0 -1 directory))` but I
have no idea wether this works on all platforms.
Thanks
Jonas
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* Re: parent directories of directories
2010-08-23 19:48 parent directories of directories Jonas Bernoulli
@ 2010-08-23 20:31 ` Jonas Bernoulli
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From: Jonas Bernoulli @ 2010-08-23 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 21:48, Jonas Bernoulli <jonasbernoulli@gmail.com> wrote:
> How does one get the parent directory of a directory in a way that
> works on all supported platforms?
Ah, sorry I missed `directory-file-name'.
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