From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tilde in dired default-directory but not elsewhere Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:43:56 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <874myqqvfn.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <87fvickfy2.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404927965 15005 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2014 17:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 17:46:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 09 19:45:58 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X4vwL-0003Yj-8s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:45:57 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33057 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4vwK-00014z-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:45:56 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.datemas.de!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:frd2hamHmF2+eZVaIyjrAIKz+qE= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206338 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98600 Archived-At: Michael Heerdegen writes: > I think you should use `abbreviate-file-name` in your > mode-line expression. Yes, this works: (setq-default mode-line-format '(:eval (abbreviate-file-name (buffer-file-name)))) Now it will be interesting to see how much work is required to make it work the right way for dired and sudo buffers, not to mention all the "file-less" modes... On the bright side, `abbreviate-file-name' I can probably also use to clean up the code I just posted, that of killing the path! -- underground experts united