From: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: delete-file using wildcard
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:50:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8762j8p4fv.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87aa8kp4ie.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> ishi soichi <soichi777@gmail.com> writes:
>
> Hi!
>
>> the wildcard command does not seem work similarly in Emacs Lisp.
>>
>> (delete-file (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1))
>
> `delete-file' wants exactly one file given as string, but the `subseq'
> form returns a *list* with exactly one file name, i.e., the last file
> matching the given wildcard.
>
> This should do the trick:
>
> (delete-file (nth 0 (subseq (file-expand-wildcards "~/Desktop/*") -1)))
Argh, of course one would use `car' instead of `nth' here.
Bye,
Tassilo
--
(What the world needs (I think) is not
(a Lisp (with fewer parentheses))
but (an English (with more.)))
Brian Hayes, http://tinyurl.com/3y9l2kf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-29 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-29 7:54 delete-file using wildcard ishi soichi
2011-10-29 8:12 ` Jambunathan K
2011-10-29 8:48 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-10-29 8:50 ` Tassilo Horn [this message]
2011-10-29 8:57 ` ishi soichi
2011-10-29 9:03 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-10-29 14:16 ` Drew Adams
2011-10-29 20:30 ` ishi soichi
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