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Re: Directory name to variable (dired?)


From: Tim Johnson
Subject: Re: Directory name to variable (dired?)
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:05:38 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17)

* Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> [181007 15:32]:
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 17:55, Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a function that returns a directory and full path
> > so that it could be assigned to a variable?
> 
> Which directory?
  Any

> > Ideally, dired would be a great place to start, as the directory
> > path is at the top of the screen.
> 
> The one at the top of the screen is already in variable `default-directory'.
  Understood. 

  It looks like `default-directory changes to whichever directory is
  logged. If that's the case, then that is what I'm looking for. :)

  thanks. 

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Tim Johnson
http://www.tj49.com



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