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  1. POSublime text: How to get the file name of the current view
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    copied!<p>I'm trying to write a tiny plugin to delete the current file and close the active view. For some reason self.view.file_name() always returns None.</p> <p>I'm new to Python and I've no idea why it doesn't work like this. According to the <a href="http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/api_reference.html#sublime.View" rel="nofollow">API Reference</a> file_name() returns the file name of the current view.</p> <pre><code>import sublime, sublime_plugin, send2trash class DeleteCurrentFileCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand): def run(self, edit): f = self.view.file_name() if (f is None): return send2trash.send2trash(f) self.view.window().run_command('close') </code></pre> <p>Output of dir(self.view):</p> <blockquote> <p>['<strong>class</strong>', '<strong>delattr</strong>', '<strong>dict</strong>', '<strong>doc</strong>', '<strong>format</strong>', '<strong>getattribute</strong>', '<strong>hash</strong>', '<strong>init</strong>', '<strong>len</strong>', '<strong>module</strong>', '<strong>new</strong>', '<strong>reduce</strong>', '<strong>reduce_ex</strong>', '<strong>repr</strong>', '<strong>setattr</strong>', '<strong>sizeof</strong>', '<strong>str</strong>', '<strong>subclasshook</strong>', '<strong>weakref</strong>', 'add_regions', 'begin_edit', 'buffer_id', 'classify', 'command_history', 'em_width', 'encoding', 'end_edit', 'erase', 'erase_regions', 'erase_status', 'extract_completions', 'extract_scope', 'file_name', 'find', 'find_all', 'find_all_results', 'find_by_selector', 'fold', 'folded_regions', 'full_line', 'get_regions', 'get_status', 'get_symbols', 'has_non_empty_selection_region', 'id', 'indentation_level', 'indented_region', 'insert', 'is_dirty', 'is_folded', 'is_loading', 'is_read_only', 'is_scratch', 'layout_extent', 'layout_to_text', 'line', 'line_endings', 'line_height', 'lines', 'match_selector', 'meta_info', 'name', 'replace', 'retarget', 'rowcol', 'run_command', 'scope_name', 'score_selector', 'sel', 'set_encoding', 'set_line_endings', 'set_name', 'set_read_only', 'set_scratch', 'set_status', 'set_syntax_file', 'set_viewport_position', 'settings', 'show', 'show_at_center', 'size', 'split_by_newlines', 'substr', 'syntax_name', 'text_point', 'text_to_layout', 'unfold', 'viewport_extent', 'viewport_position', 'visible_region', 'window', 'word']</p> </blockquote>
 

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