Re: C-x C-f RET sometimes ignores you

[Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "K" == Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com> writes:

K> Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> Start up emacs, in the scratch buffer do C-x C-f RET
>> This invokes dired on the home directory.  Good.
>> 
>> Start up emacs, find some file, then do C-x C-f RET
>> This does nothing.  Bad.

K> (defadvice find-file (around find-default-filename-run-dired activate)
K>   "Run `\\[dired]' on the current directory (instead of reverting the
K> buffer) when called interactively, if `find-file-run-dired' is set, no
K> FILENAME is specified, and the buffer hasn't been modified."
K>   (if (and find-file-run-dired
K>         (interactive-p)
K>         (equal (ad-get-arg 0) buffer-file-name)
K>         (not (buffer-modified-p)))
K>       (dired (file-name-directory buffer-file-name))
K>     ad-do-it))

Thanks, but I was more looking for a crushing admission from the emacs
maintainers that there is a flaw, rather than a comforting piece of
advice for home use.  Also buffer modified or unmodified doesn't
seem to be a reason for emacs to not at least explain why it
apparently does nothing here.
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