From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Directory name to variable (dired?) Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:20:05 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20181008002005.GD17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20181007214950.GA17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20181007231453.GB17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <9c5dbc22-80fa-4284-b4ed-46b70425d6b0@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538958435 4791 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2018 00:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 00:27:15 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 02:27:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9JO9-00017y-N2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 02:27:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9JQG-0002IJ-1F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:29:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35095) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9JPi-0002Fs-U5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:28:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9JHL-0000on-RO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:20:10 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:59884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9JHL-0000nq-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Oct 2018 20:20:07 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3843324015F; Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:20:05 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c5dbc22-80fa-4284-b4ed-46b70425d6b0@default> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118196 Archived-At: * Drew Adams [181007 16:08]: > > > > Is there a function that returns a directory and full path > > > > so that it could be assigned to a variable? > > > > > > > > Ideally, dired would be a great place to start, as the directory > > > > path is at the top of the screen. > > > > > > In Dired, `M-0 w' invokes command `dired-copy-filename-as-kill' > > > with prefix arg 0, which copies the absolute name of the file > > > named on the current line. > > > > > > Non-interactively, (dired-copy-filename-as-kill 0) does the > > > same thing. > > > > > > Then (setq foo (current-kill 0)) sets variable `foo' to a string > > > with that absolute file name. > > > Thanks Drew. I can use that, and without adding another package. > > This works on any subdir line, to get the absolute name of > that subdir. And it works on any file name. And as Noam > said, you can use variable `default-directory' for the name > of the main directory. And I note that `default-directory is buffer local, so my variable assignment must be made while I am still in dired. thnx -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com