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! ;-)