Re: emacs equivalent of vi %

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Nikolaj Schumacher <n_schumacher@web.de> wrote:
>
> > "Rustom Mody" <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Bind the character '%' to
> > > (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name))
> > Also, note that you'll need to make an interactive function out of the
> > form to bind it to a key.
>
> Oups, that's not all...
> It won't work, because `buffer-file-name' will of course return the
> minibuffer's file name (i.e. none).  I'm currently not aware of an easy
> way to get the originating buffer from the minibuffer.  Sorry.


Maybe minibuffer-selected-window + window-buffer?