RE: key to yank text at point into minibuffer?

[Drew Adams]

    > I tried ffap.el for a while and found I didn't care much for it. In
    > particular, in Dired I rarely want to use the file name at
    > point when I use `C-x f' - if I want that then I just use `RET'.
    > Anyway, if people find ffap.el handy that's fine. I realize that it
    > also does other things, including mailto: prefixing and remote-file
    > handling.

    (define-key dired-mode-map "\C-x\C-f" 'find-file) ; override
                                                      ; ffap-bindings

Well, that wasn't the real point of my posting, but yes, that would do the
trick for `C-x C-f' in Dired. However, ffap.el does a lot more in Dired, and
there are other such bindings to override.

I no longer use ffap.el, but when I did, I added an option to inhibit it,
and set the option as a local variable when in Dired mode. That might be
overkill, but it accomplished what I wanted.