On Mac OSX, I'm editing a file in an Emacs buffer. I need to conveniently open the directory containing this file in the MAC OSX Finder. What's the best way to do this?
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My way wasn't shown in the other thread: M-! open . RET.
open is a general OS X command which will cause the system to open a file or directory in the default application. . is the current directory.
I don't do this very often, so I find it faster to type the above incantation than to write a function and map it somewhere. M-x open-in-finder would take more characters than above.
reveal-in-finderuses the namefinderwithout qualification (in the library name and in the code).finder.elis a longstanding, standard Emacs library, and its commands, functions and variables use the namefinderto mean something quite different from the "MAC OS X Finder". I wish that thereveal-in-findermaintainer would consider using a name and name component such asmacosx-finderorosx-finder, instead of justfinder.