From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp: isn't default-directory always the dir of current file??
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:06:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <goiabm$6u1$2@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3fde486e-8b96-49d3-a69e-a727216ca5bf@k9g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Xah Lee wrote:
> What i sought is load-file-name or buffer-file-name.
> (file-name-directory (if load-file-name load-file-name buffer-file-
> name))
(file-name-directory (or load-file-name buffer-file-name))
is the idiomatic way to express that.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-02 6:54 elisp: isn't default-directory always the dir of current file?? Xah Lee
2009-03-02 7:27 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 7:46 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 10:32 ` Lennart Borgman
[not found] ` <mailman.2198.1235989932.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-02 20:32 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-03 16:45 ` Mike Mattie
[not found] ` <mailman.2298.1236115585.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-03 22:49 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-02 13:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-03-02 20:38 ` Xah Lee
2009-03-03 4:06 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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