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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to put default-directory into kill-ring?
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 10:14:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvob2c9xhs.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFM41H0cLjO3WK=woy4skrR8jXho=mvcGrOc4Qq94iaY9fqCBg@mail.gmail.com

>> quite often I want to put some full path to some file (usually
>> init.el). It would be quite convenient for M-x pwd (or maybe C-u M-x
>> pwd?) to put its output into the kill ring, which is does not. So:
>> is there any function to do this? (I can easily write it myself, but
>> don't want to reinvent the wheel.) If not, could this be considered
>> a feature request?

We could provide such a feature, of course.  If you have a good UI for
it, please tell.

When I need such a thing, I usually use something like C-x C-f
then copy the part I want, then C-g.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-12 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-12 14:44 How to put default-directory into kill-ring? Barry OReilly
2014-02-12 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-02-14 12:41   ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-14 13:24     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-14 13:40       ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-14 16:32         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-02-14 18:41         ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-14 21:31           ` Nicolas Richard
2014-02-14 18:42       ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-14 12:59   ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-02-14 18:40     ` Marcin Borkowski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-02-04 11:07 Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-04 11:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-02-05 17:03   ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-04 14:01 ` Drew Adams
2014-02-05 17:03   ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-02-04 17:34 ` Leo Liu

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