From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Brendan Leber <brendan@brendanleber.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File?
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 22:18:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgxts4m9.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC77Q0GrDNmV=2bc2VDd+emZy5wsf-YzzdtDx=HiFcXkmnEpWQ@mail.gmail.com> (Brendan Leber's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:46:07 -0700")
On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:46:07 -0700 Brendan Leber <brendan@brendanleber.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I have a function I've used to work on files that right now I call
> manually with M-x my-shiny-function RET my-shiny.file. This works
> great for the one off file. Yet I usually have to process batches of
> files in a given directory. Being able to add a key binding to dired
> would be awesome as I'm already using dired on the directory to rename
> files and such.
>
> I know enough elisp to add the key binding and write the function, I
> think. The place I'm stuck is getting the file name as the first
> argument to the function when the binding is pressed. Can anyone
> share some pointers to make this happen?
Perhaps the function dired-get-filename does what you want.
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-12 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-12 17:46 Extend Dired to Call a Function on a File? Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:12 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-12 20:36 ` Brendan Leber
2016-10-13 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-13 16:59 ` Brendan Leber
2016-10-12 20:18 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2016-10-12 21:12 ` John Mastro
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