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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Help Gnu Emacs mailing list <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Directory name to variable (dired?)
Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 11:27:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_wHwxYXOUybSjqscfUbUWANhtr0ns=8hMVvxbybZswqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181008151826.GF17855@mail.akwebsoft.com>

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 11:18, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:

> >   To determine if a buffer is a dired buffer, it seems that I can
> >   verify that by evaluating `dired-omit-mode
> >
> >   Is there a more idiomatic way to do so?
>   Duh! Asked and answered: Probably
>   something like (eq (major-mode) "dired-mode") ;; untested

You'll want to single quote 'dired-mode the symbol for `eq'
comparisons. Possibly use the `derived-mode-p' function instead.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-08 15:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-07 21:49 Directory name to variable (dired?) Tim Johnson
2018-10-07 23:02 ` Drew Adams
2018-10-07 23:14   ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08  0:02     ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08  0:20       ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08  1:55         ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08 15:08           ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 15:18             ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 15:27               ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2018-10-08 15:56               ` Drew Adams
2018-10-08 20:12             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-08 20:50               ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-07 23:18 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08  0:05   ` Tim Johnson
2018-10-08 10:56     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-10-08 15:42       ` Tim Johnson

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