Re: How to prevent Emacs from translating beginning of file path into "~"?

[tomas]

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On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 03:16:07PM +0600, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:49 PM,  <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > What can be modified too is the value copied to the kill ring
> > (mumble mumble "clipboard" mumble) when the current buffer has
> > no obvious file name -- I'm doing "" here
> 
> Might be beneficial to use dired-directory for dired buffers.

Yep. Nice idea. Expanded version:

  (defun copy-current-filename-as-kill ()
    (interactive)
    (let ((filename (or buffer-file-name
                        dired-directory)))
      (kill-new
       (or (and filename
                (expand-file-name filename))
           ""))))

Just extend the (or ...) to taste for more cases :-)

Thanks
- -- tomás
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