list-directory not ffap aware

list-directory not ffap aware

[Dan Jacobson]

dired is ffap aware, but not list-directory.
I.e., when I type C-x C-d, what is under the cursor is not taken into
account when prompting in the minibuffer.

Re: list-directory not ffap aware

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 > dired is ffap aware, but not list-directory.
 > I.e., when I type C-x C-d, what is under the cursor is not taken into
 > account when prompting in the minibuffer.

How can that be?  dired's interactive spec just calls
dired-read-dir-and-switches, which calls read-file-name like this:

(read-file-name prompt nil default-directory nil)

which is exactly like list-directory's interactive spec.  So how could
ffap affect one call to read-file-name but not the other?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: list-directory not ffap aware

[Dan Jacobson]

>> dired is ffap aware, but not list-directory.
>> I.e., when I type C-x C-d, what is under the cursor is not taken into
>> account when prompting in the minibuffer.

K> How can that be?

Say start dired. With the cursor over a filename, try C-x d C-g
and C-x C-d C-g. Noting what one was prompted with before hitting C-g.

Maybe it's because I use dired-aux in
http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt.gz , which see.
emacs-version's value is "21.3.1"

Re: list-directory not ffap aware

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:
 >>>dired is ffap aware, but not list-directory.
 >>>I.e., when I type C-x C-d, what is under the cursor is not taken into
 >>>account when prompting in the minibuffer.
 >
 > K> How can that be?
 >
 > Say start dired. With the cursor over a filename, try C-x d C-g
 > and C-x C-d C-g. Noting what one was prompted with before hitting C-g.
 >
 > Maybe it's because I use dired-aux in
 > http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt.gz , which see.
 > emacs-version's value is "21.3.1"

No, it's simply that calling ffap-bindings rebinds `C-x d' to
dired-at-point but does not rebind `C-x C-d' (because ffap.el doesn't
define a list-directory-at-point command).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers