current and parent dots.

[tom]

I thought this might sort of go along with the absolute path name thread, so I'll throw it out there. I am having fits with the ".." and "." that "directory" returns with the directory contents.

the show-tree function gets around it with the top-level directory with (!=nde ".")(!=nde ".."), but still returns the silly dots with subdirectories. How can I be rid of them? The nde thing looks messy, and I can't ge it to work right. is there another way? how 'bout a version of "directory" that does not show current and parent?

thanks...

-tom

[cormullion]

Luckily directory can take wildcards, so you should be able to specify that you don't want anything starting with dots:

Something like this:

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(directory "./" "[^.\*]" 0)

- perhaps experiment till you get the right regex syntax! ;-)