From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kamphausen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: build a macro that opens a directory and prompts for file name Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:04:06 +0100 Organization: Church of Emacs Message-ID: <873af5xdyh.fsf@usenet.my.skamphausen.de> References: <87f0e43c-d0e9-45eb-8d4f-ae5c7745a2a3@t26g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <4r5tz7qrqjh.fsf@one.net> <7cwscil6fu.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233053037 18112 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2009 10:43:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:43:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 11:45:09 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LRlRG-0004t7-7L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:45:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42940 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRlPy-0008Si-BX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:43:42 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net K89I6+9E7H2Ks9YDa9Z2Xx7uTqNqoea6raT0com4TEYbVbAfxdIdYaZMHMto0/st4p96jK0ONHjBHPQgMsQ9QF6qpxa/LgoghyfIPc0sSCDWKaml3tSaIjdOFFDQRKxv Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:04:06 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: IvRivoMjRdvy5svZSfEXRBAMZkqWywVa7s6g5F2h+FE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:aTniVuek+kmj1WPY8VPsPNzbtj8= sha1:o8KxQ3WGws/UzGk0rTeY9wM7ypw= User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: Zryd+0lSEaAFQCXMPP9s+rC8eqLMhDjJSa9xntB/Zkw= Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:166372 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61692 Archived-At: Hi, "Drew Adams" writes: > FYI, you can also just use Emacs (yes, Emacs) command `cd' to change the > `default-directory' at any time. No need to open a Dired buffer. FWIW, cdargs ([1]please excuse the self-ad) offers a kind of bookmarks for the shell and ships with some elisp to use the cdargs bookmarks from Emacs, too. Cheers, Stefan Footnotes: [1] http://www.skamphausen.de/cgi-bin/ska/CDargs -- Stefan Kamphausen --- http://www.skamphausen.de a blessed +42 regexp of confusion (weapon in hand) You hit. The format string crumbles and turns to dust.