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: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 07:42:52 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20181008154252.GG17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20181007214950.GA17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20181008000538.GC17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539013290 1249 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2018 15:41:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 15:41:30 +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 17:41:26 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 1g9Xeu-0000AN-Rf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 17:41:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46971 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9Xh1-0006VP-0b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34849) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9Xga-0006PH-Pz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:43:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9XgU-0005yB-Gr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:43:08 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:57522) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9XgT-0005sT-3x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 11:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: by linus (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BBBC824015F; Mon, 8 Oct 2018 07:42:52 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:118210 Archived-At: * Noam Postavsky [181008 02:57]: > On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 20:05, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > * Noam Postavsky [181007 15:32]: > > > On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 17:55, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a function that returns a directory and full path > > > > so that it could be assigned to a variable? > > > > > > Which directory? > > Any > > "/" is a directory, so you don't need a function or a variable, but I > don't quite understand how you could be looking for "any" directory... I don't wish to restrict where I might navigate to and subsequently grab a directory path. I would not likely use ~/ or anything above... currently the specific application would be to change or add paths under something like ~/prj/emacs-desktops where project-specific desktop files are located. Although the application is currently of limited scope, it could expand, but not by much. I'm a retired programmer and just trying to keep my brain from atropyhing ... cheers -- Tim Johnson http://www.tj49.com