* How to use dired to return a file or directory name
@ 2014-06-25 21:55 Tim Johnson
2014-06-25 22:19 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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From: Tim Johnson @ 2014-06-25 21:55 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Emacs
Greetings :
Using :
GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
on Ubuntu 12.04
I'd like to be able to use dired (or something similar) to
select a directory name or a desktop name.
1)Dired shows directories only
Some action or command closes the dired buffer and returns a
selected directory name as a string.
2)Dired shows directories and a filtered file list - example
"*.emacs.desktop" and some action or command returns a selected
file name as a string.
Feel free to point me to URLs or to help commands.
TIA
--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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* Re: How to use dired to return a file or directory name
2014-06-25 21:55 How to use dired to return a file or directory name Tim Johnson
@ 2014-06-25 22:19 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-25 22:58 ` Tim Johnson
2014-06-26 3:58 ` Tim Johnson
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Thorsten Jolitz @ 2014-06-25 22:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
> Greetings :
>
> Using :
> GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
> on Ubuntu 12.04
>
> I'd like to be able to use dired (or something similar) to
> select a directory name or a desktop name.
>
> 1)Dired shows directories only
> Some action or command closes the dired buffer and returns a
> selected directory name as a string.
>
> 2)Dired shows directories and a filtered file list - example
> "*.emacs.desktop" and some action or command returns a selected
> file name as a string.
>
> Feel free to point me to URLs or to help commands.
Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but inside dired
,----[ C-h f dired-copy-filename-as-kill RET ]
| dired-copy-filename-as-kill is an interactive compiled Lisp function
| in `dired.el'.
|
| (dired-copy-filename-as-kill &optional ARG)
|
| Copy names of marked (or next ARG) files into the kill ring.
| The names are separated by a space.
| With a zero prefix arg, use the absolute file name of each marked file.
| With C-u, use the file name relative to the dired buffer's
| `default-directory'. (This still may contain slashes if in a subdirectory.)
|
| If on a subdir headerline, use absolute subdirname instead;
| prefix arg and marked files are ignored in this case.
|
| You can then feed the file name(s) to other commands with C-y.
|
| [back]
`----
with and without zero prefix arg is very useful, I have it bound to
'w', so I type either 'w' or '0 w' to get file/dir names.
--
cheers,
Thorsten
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* Re: How to use dired to return a file or directory name
2014-06-25 22:19 ` Thorsten Jolitz
@ 2014-06-25 22:58 ` Tim Johnson
2014-06-26 3:58 ` Tim Johnson
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From: Tim Johnson @ 2014-06-25 22:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
* Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> [140625 14:36]:
> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
<...>
> > I'd like to be able to use dired (or something similar) to
> > select a directory name or a desktop name.
> >
> > 1)Dired shows directories only
> > Some action or command closes the dired buffer and returns a
> > selected directory name as a string.
> >
> > 2)Dired shows directories and a filtered file list - example
> > "*.emacs.desktop" and some action or command returns a selected
> > file name as a string.
>
> Not sure if I understand the question correctly, but inside dired
>
> ,----[ C-h f dired-copy-filename-as-kill RET ]
> | dired-copy-filename-as-kill is an interactive compiled Lisp function
> | in `dired.el'.
> |
> | (dired-copy-filename-as-kill &optional ARG)
> |
> | Copy names of marked (or next ARG) files into the kill ring.
> | The names are separated by a space.
> | With a zero prefix arg, use the absolute file name of each marked file.
> | With C-u, use the file name relative to the dired buffer's
> | `default-directory'. (This still may contain slashes if in a subdirectory.)
> |
> | If on a subdir headerline, use absolute subdirname instead;
> | prefix arg and marked files are ignored in this case.
> |
> | You can then feed the file name(s) to other commands with C-y.
Hello Thorsten:
I have looked at that function, but what I was hoping to find
something that returned a variable. (as opposed to adding to the
kill ring)
So as an example for 1) :
(setq selected-directory
(browse-directories-from-current-directory))
Actually, I've written a defun already that uses (directory-files)
and (x-popup-menu), so 2) is solved for me now.
thanks for the quick reply
--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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* Re: How to use dired to return a file or directory name
2014-06-25 22:19 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-06-25 22:58 ` Tim Johnson
@ 2014-06-26 3:58 ` Tim Johnson
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tim Johnson @ 2014-06-26 3:58 UTC (permalink / raw
To: help-gnu-emacs
* Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com> [140625 14:36]:
> Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> writes:
<...>
> |
> | You can then feed the file name(s) to other commands with C-y.
Upon review ...
... And once the value is on the kill-ring, one should be able to
pop that value into a variable in an interactive 'defun.
Will play with this idea tomorrow.
cheers
--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com
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