From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Directory name to variable (dired?)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 01:55:17 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b0e4173-69d6-4f90-8563-dad8a8a36820@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181008002005.GD17855@mail.akwebsoft.com>
> And I note that `default-directory is buffer local, so my variable
> assignment must be made while I am still in dired.
It is buffer-local, but it is available in any buffer.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-08 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-07 21:49 Directory name to variable (dired?) Tim Johnson
2018-10-07 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-07 23:14 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 0:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08 0:20 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 1:55 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2018-10-08 15:08 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 15:18 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 15:27 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 15:56 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08 20:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-08 20:50 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-07 23:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 0:05 ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 10:56 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 15:42 ` Tim Johnson
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