From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Knowing the name of a file from the file itself
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:28:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224552889.48382@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ec3b12-d424-4b0f-8a90-d6ee3ca2add8@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>
abc wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm a recent Emacs convert. I'm structuring my .emacs.d directory
> which has become quite messy.
>
> For that purpose, I'd like to know if it's possible to know the name
> of a file and the path to it from the file itself, like in many other
> languages, e.g. Ruby.
>
> I've looked for a variable or function for this with no luck.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
I think `load-file-name' is what you are looking for.
,----[ C-h v load-file-name RET ]
| load-file-name is a variable defined in `C source code'.
| Its value is nil
|
|
| Documentation:
| Full name of file being loaded by `load'.
|
`----
-ap
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 1:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-20 23:04 Knowing the name of a file from the file itself abc
2008-10-21 0:25 ` Andy Stewart
2008-10-21 1:28 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2008-10-21 10:13 ` abc
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