Thanks! I agree the name is not exactly right.
It's more complicated because if the buffer is *not* visiting a file, the right thing for this function to just save the buffer to the location selected. I don't know if the name that needs to take that into account.
Is there a name for the file a buffer is visiting? Maybe "move-associated-file"? "move-visited-file"?
On Sun, Jun 26, 2022, 10:50 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <
larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
Zachary Kanfer <zkanfer@gmail.com> writes:
> So, attached is a patch for an interactive function that prompts for a
> new location, then writes the current buffer to that
> location. Assuming it's successful, and the buffer previously was
> associated with a file, it deletes the old file.
I think this sounds like a useful command, but I'm not sure about the
name:
[...]
> +(defun move-file (new-location)
> + "Move the current file to NEW-LOCATION.
This is about moving the file the current buffer is visiting -- there's
no such thing as a "current file" in Emacs -- so the command name (and
doc string) should reflect that. I don't really have a suggestion for a
better command name, though. Anybody?
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