Re: how having the basename of a file or directory

[Thierry Volpiatto]

Hi Stephen,

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Thierry Volpiatto writes:
>
>  > (defun basename (fname)
>  >   (if (file-directory-p fname)
>  >       (let ((dirname (directory-file-name fname))) 
>  >         (file-relative-name
>  >          dirname (file-name-directory dirname)))
>  >       (file-name-nondirectory fname)))
>
> (file-name-nondirectory (directory-file-name PATH))
>
> should work (modulo I'm testing in XEmacs, but I can't imagine that we
> differ in this respect).
Yes thanks, that's work too, but it would be nice to do not have to take
care of that:

(file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/directory")
should return ==> directory
(file-name-nondirectory "path/to/a/file")
should return ==> file

So modifying `file-name-nondirectory' or creating a basename function
or macro like:

(defun basename (fname)
  (if (file-directory-p fname)
      (let ((dirname (directory-file-name fname)))
        (file-name-nondirectory dirname))
      (file-name-nondirectory fname)))

would be nice.


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