From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tilde in dired default-directory but not elsewhere Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:27:03 +0200 Message-ID: <87ion7emfc.fsf@web.de> References: <87fvickfy2.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1404870392 30383 80.91.229.3 (9 Jul 2014 01:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 01:46:32 +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 03:46:23 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 1X4gxh-0001Mn-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jul 2014 03:46:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4gxh-0006mG-3h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 21:46:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4a9f-0002FK-Io for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:30:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4a9X-00063Z-1v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:30:15 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X4a9W-00060q-S5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 14:30:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X4a9T-0002aU-TH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net ([94.217.127.201]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jul 2014 20:30:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-094-217-127-201.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:inKTx82/gHvaM5z4dCLLPy/fPRg= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:98595 Archived-At: Hi Emanuel, > First start it and do describe-variable > default-directory. You get the tilde. Then open a file > with an .el extension which should bring Emacs to > emacs-lisp-mode. Do the dance again and it says > /home/user/! > > Do `cd', and you get the tilde in the suggestion - but > describe it, and you get the explicit path! > > Is this as it should be, and if so, is there a reason? Due to the doc, it is unspecified, which means both cases are ok. (Also note that default-directory is a buffer local variable, and you didn't tell in your recipe in which buffer you looked at the binding) > Interesting tho it might be, what I really want is the > tilde in the mode line, always, showing the complete > path. I have a huge font I suppose so it happens that > the path overflows the width of the terminal if I get > deep in the file tree. Besides my eye is trained for ~ > and it looks sort of weird to see the /home/user/ > stuff. I think you should use `abbreviate-file-name` in your mode-line expression. Michael.