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Windows 10, Emacs 25.1, Dired

If I want to copy to parent's directory name to kill-ring I go to folder name and press w

Here result:

Success copy

OK. It's work.

But I wan't to move cursor and get parent's directory name. I try by command digit-argument w but I get the next result:

Not get name

As you can see Emacs copy to kill-ring files name and dirs names. But it not copy the parent's directory name.

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  • I don't quite understand the question. Are you asking for a command that moves the cursor temporarily to the top line (where the current directory name is) and then does what w does? Can you get what you want by defining and using a keyboard macro? If so, then a recipe that details defining the macro you use would make clear just what action you want to perform. To me it's not clear yet.
    – Drew
    Commented Oct 14, 2017 at 16:11
  • I want the next: it does not matter where is cursor is position on the Dired buffer, I want to get parent name by one command. Is it possible?
    – Alex
    Commented Oct 15, 2017 at 7:14

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It's still not very clear what you're asking, but I'm guessing this is it:

(defun copy-parent-dir-as-kill ()
  "..."
  (interactive)
  (kill-new (expand-file-name default-directory)))

If you don't want to convert ~/ to its expansion, remove the expand-file-name.

(This is unrelated to Dired+ or even to Dired in general, BTW. You can use the same command in any buffer, to copy the current directory to the kill-ring.)

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