How to print the name of the current file being edited in Emacs? Posted on Mar 24, 2018 by Eric Ma In QA In Emacs, how to print the name of the current file that I am editing? The built-in function buffer-file-name gives the full path of your file. To get the file name: M-: buffer-file-name Read more: How to merge a commit from another branch to my current branch in git? Linux Kernel: xt_quota: report initial quota value instead of current value to userspace How to get a FILE pointer from a file descriptor and how to get a file descriptor from a FILE pointer in C on Linux? How to convert between dos and unix file coding in Emacs? Generating TAGS file for Emacs recursively? How to print a plain text file to printers from a terminal in Linux How to Print Notes on a PDF File with Acrobat, Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader Replacing with a string with newline in Emacs?