Questions tagged [filenames]
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How can I get the filename of the most recently modified PDF file in my temp directory?
I'd just like to get the filename of the most recently modified PDF file in my /tmp/ directory, using elisp. Is there a function for that?
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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 ...
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Problems saving files and creating directory
I have recently set-up a new Emacs on my OSx 10.15. Every time I try to create a directory in Dired with + I got a warning telling the files already exist. Another strange result I got when I try to ...
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How can I get Emacs 21-style file-name completion in GNU Emacs 25.1.1?
How can I make file-name completion in GNU Emacs 25.1.1 act like it did in version 21.x.x?
There are a few things that bother me:
The *Completions* buffer opens up in a custom fit-to-content window. ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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How to specify relative path to a file inside init.el
I have something like this inside my init file:
(when (file-readable-p "/absolute/path/to/config.org")
(org-babel-load-file (expand-file-name "/absolute/path/to/config.org")))...
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Elisp function to open file name with space?
To open a file with default associated application, I have this function, which works as I expect, except with a file name that has space:
(defun open-a-file ()
(interactive)
(let (...
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How to insert date into minibuffer, or how to create a new file with date as part of filename?
shell way:
touch testfile-`date +%Y-%m-%d`
emacs way? c-x c-f testfile-... now what?
I want to type the first part of the filename myself, but not the date.
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How to define absolute directory paths and use them as file prefixes in org files
I need to represent absolute paths to several directories by some constant names to use them as prefixes in org mode for a number of files contained in each of these directories.
For instance they ...
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Custom compilation command fails on Windows due to slashes in paths
when i type on "shell":
c:\Users\TR\Desktop\emacs-27.2-x86_64\bin\GAMES\game3>love .
works fine but when i put
(defun insert-file-name ()
(interactive)
(let ((compilation-ask-about-...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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Macro definition
I'm in the process of "modularizing" my config file and ran into a problem involving elisp macros.
Because of the way in which I'm defining my configuration modules, I ended up with a bunch ...
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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 ...
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Converting init file on Mac/Linux to Windows
I use a package called Deft that needs a directory to store and load files. To define this directory on Mac or GNU/Linux I use the following expression:
(setq deft-directory "~/Dropbox/org")
When ...
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How to tweak dired-create-empty-file to facilitate the easy creation of files
I currently have bound the command dired-create-empty-file to f7. Emacs then prompts me for a file name. When I press f7 I would like Emacs to automatically create an ORG file and automatically ...
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How to match the nondirectory part of a filename with a regular expression?
Whats the correct way to match a filename from a full path using string-match-p.
Say I want to check if the file is a git commit message COMMIT_EDITMSG or svn-commit.tmp or svn-commit.3.tmp to pass ...
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Help; how use Persistent Sets of Completion Candidates for search?
I want to use a set of files inside my directory ~/Dokumente to search for changes in title, content. So I saved such a set of file names persistently, using C-} during file-name completion with ...
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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-...
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Dired move file with quotation
When I do dired-do-copy on a file with a quotation for example "test"f.txt,
I get the following error when copying/moving file with quotation symbols
Copy ‘/home/user/Music/"test"f.txt’ to ‘/media/...
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How to get absolute file names, to use with `cd`?
I have this function:
;; needs work in case of spaces in filenames
(cl-defun filename-from-buffer (&key get-ext get-abs)
"Returns the absolute name, with or without extension,
of the file ...
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How do I set Icicles’s default sort order for filenames?
In general, Icicles sorts things in alphabetical order. However, something I can’t find has made it so filenames are sorted in descending alphabetical order (z, y, x … b, a). I can use C-M-, to ...
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Don't offer non-file-name as a file name in find-file
When opening a file with find-file, the default entry in the minibuffer is the current directory. If I press Down, I see the name of the current file (if the current buffer is visiting a file).
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asked Dec 12 '18 at 14:29
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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Automatically loading a bibliography file depending on buffer filename
I use org-mode to write a paper, with RefTeX as minor-mode to insert quotations from a BibTeX (.bib) file.
RefTeX needs to be told which .bib file to use. This is done by assigning a value to reftex-...
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Org links file name encoding issue
Inspired by John Kitchin's presentation of org-links features in Org-mode 9, I tried to implement a simple functionality for "file" links. Since I am working on several machines, I wanted the link ...
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org-agenda column view: displaying abbreviated FILE property
I would like to display file names in my global TODO list in column view without directories and extensions.
(setq org-columns-default-format "%TODO %FILE %ITEM") followed by
C-catC-cC-xC-c leads to ...
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How to sort a list of files/directories by hierarchical depth?
I am working on implementing my own feature request -- http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=31601 -- to give wdired the ability to handle a dired- buffer that contains an arbitrary list of ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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string splitting (renaming files)
new user here.
I am wondering- can somebody walk me through how to do the following:
In a given directory I have files that look like this
fluc_sk2_556.png
even_sk2_922.png
I would like, with ...
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File mode name with -mode suffix or not?
I am not sure when I should name file x-mode.el and when x.el.
Note that because of established practice mode writer should put (provide 'x) or (provide x-mode) to the end of file and end-users load ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Can I exclude .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG from file-name-history?
Is there a way to exclude .git/COMMIT_EDITMSG files from file-name-history? Now that I'm authoring commits with Magit, those commit message files are often the most recent entries in file-name-history,...
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file-truename and tramp
Is these a function that behaves like file-truename on local files, but does not add the /protocol:host: prefix on remote files?
Currently if I run
(file-truename "./file.ext")
while in a remote ...
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How to get completion to ignore filename extensions
It's possible to ask completion to not suggest files with particular file extensions, by:
(setq completion-ignored-extensions
(append completion-ignored-extensions
(quote
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