From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: elisp: isn't default-directory always the dir of current file?? Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:06:15 -0700 Message-ID: References: <19d2e227-6275-4b23-90f3-98c914a95156@o8g2000pre.googlegroups.com> <3fde486e-8b96-49d3-a69e-a727216ca5bf@k9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236053446 8217 80.91.229.12 (3 Mar 2009 04:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 04:10:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 03 05:12:03 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LeLz0-0003zj-Nc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:11:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34693 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeLxf-0006WX-Gl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:10:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeLxG-0006Sw-Gi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeLxE-0006SC-OD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38001 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeLxE-0006S6-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38410 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LeLxD-0005ZU-RH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LeLxC-0000OK-Se for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.36.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-36-32.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <3fde486e-8b96-49d3-a69e-a727216ca5bf@k9g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:62537 Archived-At: Xah Lee wrote: > What i sought is load-file-name or buffer-file-name. > (file-name-directory (if load-file-name load-file-name buffer-file- > name)) (file-name-directory (or load-file-name buffer-file-name)) is the idiomatic way to express that. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA