Re: dired: goto directory of a file

[Kevin Rodgers]

Barman Brakjoller wrote:

> > in a dired buffer (particu;ar in a dired-find buffer) it would be very
> > handy to be able to jump to the containing directory of a file:
> >
> > eg. the dired buffer shows the line
> >
> >  -rw-r--r--  1 leo  staff  618385 30 Nov 08:29 Audio/Apps/iCDc4.3.3.dmg.sit
> >
> > then just jump to the directory Audio/Apps in a new dired window.
>
> I came up with the following function which works in most cases I
> guess:
>
> (defun dired-open-containing-directory ()
>   "Opens the directory where the file at point is located"
>   (interactive)
>   (let ((file (dired-filename-at-point)))
>     (string-match "\\(.*/\\)" file)
>     (find-file (substring file 0 (match-end 1)))))
>
> Enjoy!
>
> If there is some shorter/better way to extract the path from the full
> filename and path, the function could be even shorter, but I didn't
> find any function that does that.

C-h f file-name-directory


It's described in detail in the File Name Components node of the Emacs
Lisp manual; you might also want to browse the other subnodes of the
File Names node.

--
Kevin Rodgers