Re: emacs equivalent of vi %

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Rustom Mody wrote:
> Thanks folks!  Heres the code I have:
> 
> (define-key minibuffer-local-map "%" 'percentsub)
> (defun percentsub ()
>   (interactive)
>   (insert (file-name-nondirectory
> 	   (buffer-file-name
> 	    (window-buffer (minibuffer-selected-window))))))
> 
> Prior to Lennarts suggestion I had hacked together
> (cadr (buffer-list))
> in place of the last line which was of course quite unacceptable
> 
> Any further suggested improvements?  I guess this is going to fail in
> some cases when theres no filename...

If you want to add it just to the ":" prompt:

(eval-after-load 'viper-keym
   '(define-key viper-ex-cmd-map [?%] 'percentsub))

> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 5:44 AM, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
> <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
>>> Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bind the character '%' to
>>>>> (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name))
>>>> Also, note that you'll need to make an interactive function out of the
>>>> form to bind it to a key.
>>> Oups, that's not all...
>>> It won't work, because `buffer-file-name' will of course return the
>>> minibuffer's file name (i.e. none).  I'm currently not aware of an easy
>>> way to get the originating buffer from the minibuffer.  Sorry.
>>
>> Maybe minibuffer-selected-window + window-buffer?
>>
>