From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>, Emacs <Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Directory name to variable (dired?)
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 23:02:44 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c57f872c-c863-476e-b4be-c9dce281a7ec@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181007214950.GA17855@mail.akwebsoft.com>
> Is there a function that returns a directory and full path
> so that it could be assigned to a variable?
>
> Ideally, dired would be a great place to start, as the directory
> path is at the top of the screen.
In Dired, `M-0 w' invokes command `dired-copy-filename-as-kill'
with prefix arg 0, which copies the absolute name of the file
named on the current line.
Non-interactively, (dired-copy-filename-as-kill 0) does the
same thing.
Then (setq foo (current-kill 0)) sets variable `foo' to a string
with that absolute file name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-07 23:02 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 [this message]
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
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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