From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to reference the current *.el file in elisp Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:49:04 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0ff6c245-95da-403d-91c1-78d9dcd092c3@w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245943983 11537 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2009 15:33:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:33:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 25 17:32:56 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MJqwa-00032E-Jk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:32:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40377 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MJqwZ-0008Fq-VC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:32:55 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245908944 800 127.0.0.1 (25 Jun 2009 05:49:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 05:49:04 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w35g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.33 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:170274 comp.emacs:98301 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:32:29 -0400 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:65506 Archived-At: On Jun 24, 9:20 pm, Harry Putnam wrote: > How does elisp reference the current *.el file?... I mean like in the > way that the variable $0 carries the the value that is the full name > of the script its in. you can use this: (or load-file-name buffer-file-name) if you want the full path, call file-name-directory on the result. Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84