From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Directory name to variable (dired?) Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:12:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20181007214950.GA17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <20181007231453.GB17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <9c5dbc22-80fa-4284-b4ed-46b70425d6b0@default> <20181008002005.GD17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> <7b0e4173-69d6-4f90-8563-dad8a8a36820@default> <20181008150817.GE17855@mail.akwebsoft.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1539030844 3857 195.159.176.226 (8 Oct 2018 20:34:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:34:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 08 22:34:00 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9cE3-0000qI-E0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:33:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9cG9-0008U8-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:36:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43018) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9c98-000458-2q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9btT-0002MP-QW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:12:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39443 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g9btR-00020M-HW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:12:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g9brD-0006mq-E9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Oct 2018 22:10:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1XvjOypL8JUov9fGG5a0AFdGwys= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118216 Archived-At: > Is there a more idiomatic way to do so? (derived-mode-p 'dired-mode) is the official way to do that. Stefan