Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")

Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")

[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

I have function:

(defun store (directory)
  (interactive "DPath to store in:")
  (.....))

Which queries the user for an existing directory, and then stores a
file in there. The minibuffer dialog employs the working directory of
the current buffer as default, however I would like to provide my own
default, in general different from the working directory. Is this
possible?


Best Regards

Joakim

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Re: Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")

[Mathias Dahl]

Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

> (defun store (directory)
>   (interactive "DPath to store in:")
>   (.....))
>
> Which queries the user for an existing directory, and then stores a
> file in there. The minibuffer dialog employs the working directory of
> the current buffer as default, however I would like to provide my own
> default, in general different from the working directory. Is this
> possible?

What about doing this instead:

 (interactive)
 ...
 (read-directory-name "Enter dir: " "~/")

/Mathias

Re: Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")

[Joakim Hove]

Mathias Dahl <brakjoller.rem0veth1s@gmail.com> writes:


> What about doing this instead:
>
>  (interactive)
>  ...
>  (read-directory-name "Enter dir: " "~/")

Sure thing - I had tried "apropos ing" for something like that, but
had not found it. Thanks a lot.

Joakim


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Re: Reading a directory with (interactive "Dxxx")

[Mathias Dahl]

Joakim Hove <hove@ift.uib.no> writes:

>> What about doing this instead:
>>
>>  (interactive)
>>  ...
>>  (read-directory-name "Enter dir: " "~/")
>
> Sure thing - I had tried "apropos ing" for something like that, but
> had not found it. Thanks a lot.

When on the subject, all these functions seems start with "read-",
read-string, read-file-name etc. Nice to know.

/Mathias