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Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD)

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In article <ff4abd5257.jim@6.abbeypress.net>,
   Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> wrote:
> Is there a nifty way of specifying the directory with input focus?
> What I want is to tell the path of that directory to an app that is 
> running.

> The currently selected directory (CSD) is represented by "@", which I 
> didn't know till today.

> But CSD is not the same thing as "directory with input focus" -- which
> is a standard feature in newer versions of the OS (since 5.22 at
> least) -- ie, the directory with lit-up titlebar, to which keystrokes
> can be directed such as F4 (full info) or ^W (make this the CSD).

> Is there something as nifty as "@" for this newer purpose?

Perhaps if you could give an idea of what the app will do with this info
(ie. is it going to send keypresses to the window?), we might be able to
work out a way to do it?

Andrew

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directory with input focus (vs CSD) Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-06 14:21 +0000
  Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2018-11-06 21:58 +0000
  Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) Andrew Conroy <a.m.conroy@owlart.co.uk> - 2018-11-07 12:36 +0000
    Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-11-07 13:55 +0000
    Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-07 14:00 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus / to Thump News <chrisjohnson@spamcop.net> - 2018-11-07 14:41 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-08 02:25 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2018-11-07 14:53 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-08 02:20 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus / to Thump druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-11-08 21:58 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Andrew Conroy <a.m.conroy@owlart.co.uk> - 2018-11-07 15:01 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-07 18:25 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-08 02:06 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus / to Thump Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2018-11-07 20:24 +0000
  Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) svrsig <chris@svrsig.org> - 2018-11-07 09:52 -0800
    Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2018-11-08 22:02 +0000
      Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 01:44 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 08:15 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 08:30 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2018-11-09 09:55 +0000
          Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 11:22 +0000
            Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Alan Wrigley <usenet@alanwrigley.me.uk> - 2018-11-09 14:20 +0000
        Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 11:14 +0000
          Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Jim Nagel <jnews18c@abbeypress.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 11:49 +0000
            Re: directory with input focus (vs CSD) / to Thump Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> - 2018-11-09 12:26 +0000

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