From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Filename of buffer into kill-ring functionality Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:43:52 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <9ofyfdql0b.fsf@gonzo.vircinity> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157039418 23833 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2006 15:50:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:50:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 17:50:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIomu-0002Uy-Bu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIomt-0001Gl-UD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:49:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIomC-0000sh-AA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:48:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIom9-0000qu-D2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:48:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIom8-0000qZ-TN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:48:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GIovn-00089O-2S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GIokP-0001lf-JT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:46:29 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) In-Reply-To: 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:37086 Archived-At: Reiner Steib wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31 2006, Marco Wahl wrote: > >> is there already a function in emacs that puts the >> absolute filename belonging to a buffer into the >> kill-ring? > > I'm not aware of any predefined function for this. You might use this > one: > > (defun rs-kill-ring-save-buffer-file-name () > "Add `buffer-file-name' in the kill ring." > (interactive) > (if (not (stringp buffer-file-name)) > (error "Not visiting a file.") > (kill-new buffer-file-name) > ;; Give some visual feedback: > (message "String \"%s\" saved to kill ring." buffer-file-name) > buffer-file-name)) That can be easily generalized: (defun kill-new-string-variable (variable) "Make the string value of VARIABLE the latest kill in the kill ring." (interactive (let ((current-buffer (current-buffer))) (intern (completing-read "Variable: " obarray (lambda (symbol) (with-current-buffer current-buffer (and (boundp symbol) (stringp (symbol-value symbol))))) t)))) ;; Let symbol-value and kill-new signal errors for unbound variables ;; and non-string values, respectively: (kill-new (symbol-value variable))) (defun kill-new-buffer-file-name () (kill-new-string-variable 'buffer-file-name)) -- Kevin