Questions tagged [filenames]
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How do I unexpand a file name?
Given ~/foo/bar, I can get /home/sds/foo/bar using expand-file-name.
However, given /Users/sds/foo/bar, how do I get ~/foo/bar?
Use case: I want to copy a file between computers and they have different physical paths to my home directory.
sds
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Automatically Uniquify Certain Buffers
Emacs does a wonderful job of disambiguating buffer names when I have several files with the same name open. That is, if I open a single main.cpp, the buffer is simply called main.cpp, but if I open two of them, then one will be main.cpp and…
Silvio Mayolo
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How to duplicate a file in Dired?
Let's say I have the following file shown in Windows File Explorer:
If I enter C-c C-v to copy and paste the file, the file is duplicated and automatically given a name:
We can repeat this to get more duplicates which are also automatically…
dharmatech
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Abbreviate "/home/user/file" to "~/file" in formatted fields (frame-title-format, etc.)
I have Emacs display the full path of the file in my window title:
(setq-default frame-title-format '("%f [%m] - Emacs"))
And in my mode-line:
(setq-default mode-line-buffer-identification
(list 'buffer-file-name
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yPhil
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How to map or iterate over a list of files and set the result to `org-agenda-files`?
looking for a little help with my function. I'm trying to create a loop-while that'll return a list of files back to org-agenda-files. It's just not working though and i keep getting errors. Any ideas how I can get this to work? Any using a…
Nick Martin
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How to test if absolute path is a root file/directory
Q: How to test whether an absolute path is a root file/directory (e.g., at the first level of the hard drive)?
I see a few possibilities depending upon whether the file is on Windows or Unix/Linux. Here is my first attempt:
(equal "/bar" (concat…
lawlist
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Why does thing-at-point not consider plus as a filename character?
Why does thing-at-point not consider + as a filename character?
For example:
(defun my-get-filename-at-point ()
(interactive)
(message (thing-at-point 'filename t)))
and consider the cursor positioned at the filename
bookmark+-1.el in the…
Håkon Hægland
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Increment file name and create a new version of the file
Assume that I am working with a file whose name contains a unique version number for example myfile_03.tex or 03jhcjh.tex and so on. Currently I create a new version of the file by C-x C-w and incrementing the number manually.
To be precise I would…
Name
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How can I construct a bash-safe filename from a string?
I want to generate very simple filenames from complex strings during a org-capture.
For instance the string
"Une idée nouvelle pour calculer $\\int_0^{\\infty} e^{-t^2} \\dd t$"
Should be reduced…
B. Pillet
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How to resolve a form before use
I have a form variable which contains a list of file paths specified via functions:
(defcustom my-files-form
'(append (list (concat my-root ".emacs")
(concat my-root ".custom"))
(file-expand-wildcards…
halloleo
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Why does emacs recognize my wildcard with finding file but not with searching buffer?
In the linux terminal, i often use wildcards (*) as a shorter alternative to type in the whole file name: if the file is named foo-and-cats I just type in something like fo* in order to pull up the file. This trick also works when i use emacs to…
thinksinbinary
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Is there a predefined way to detect if a file is a Unix socket?
Are there predefined Emacs functions to check if a file is a Unix socket?
The best I could come up with is the following code.
(defun socket-p (fname)
"Return non-nil if FNAME is a Unix Socket, nil otherwise."
(eq (string-to-char (nth 8…
PRouleau
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Modify the first element of the kill-ring
I have stored in my clipboard a path to an image, which I want to paste inside emacs.
I would like to modify the path to change/postpone/prepone some stuff before yanking.
Following my previous question here, I tried
(defun replace-in-string (what…
user1683620
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Rename org buffers to org's +TITLE instead of filename
I have hundreds of org files in a single directory that I use as a personal knowledge base and use deft to quickly find and open them. Each file is automatically named based on the current time (yyyy-mm-dd-hhmm.org) but Deft displays the org file's…
Ryan West
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Magit diff with --name-only?
I am browsing the differences between two branches of a repository via
git diff --name-only branch1 branch2
I also use the --name-status option sometimes, since I may need to see what sort of difference there is for a given file. Plodding along…
GDP2
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