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Re: How to modify 'write-file'
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richard.christensen |
Subject: |
Re: How to modify 'write-file' |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:23 -0000 |
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On Apr 10, 12:00 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> "richard.christensen" <richard.christen...@avagotech.com> writes:
> > Hi, I write and modify many files with long names in which I need to
> > save the changed file to a similar name as the original but with a few
> > letters or numbers changed. A useful modification to write-file would
> > be to have the current file name to be placed in the minibuffer along
> > with the path when write-file is called. Then modifying the name would
> > be simple. How would I do this? Ideas?
>
> Add the (buffer-name) as initial value to the first call to
> read-file-name:
>
> (interactive
> (list (if buffer-file-name
> (read-file-name "Write file: " default-directory
> (expand-file-name
> (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-name))
> default-directory)
> nil
> (buffer-name))
> (read-file-name "Write file: " default-directory
> (expand-file-name
> (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-name))
> default-directory)
> nil nil))
> (not current-prefix-arg)))
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__
Hi, I am missing something. When I C-x w on a buffer, I see no
different behavior. The current path is there but not the buffer
name. I did eval-region first.
Richard
- How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file',
richard.christensen <=
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Kevin Rodgers, 2010/05/06
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/05/07
Re: How to modify 'write-file', Andreas Politz, 2010/05/04