From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Knowing the name of a file from the file itself Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:28:57 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224552889.48382@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <47ec3b12-d424-4b0f-8a90-d6ee3ca2add8@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224553295 18435 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2008 01:41:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:41:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 21 03:42:35 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Ks6GZ-0002gr-1h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:42:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ks6FT-0000VR-Ky for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:41:27 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!news-2.dfn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224552913 1175 143.93.54.11 (21 Oct 2008 01:35:13 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:35:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: <47ec3b12-d424-4b0f-8a90-d6ee3ca2add8@m73g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-207-152.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163622 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:58962 Archived-At: 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