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Re: How to modify 'write-file'
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richard.christensen |
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Re: How to modify 'write-file' |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:20 -0000 |
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Thanks. A friend of mine suggested using Dired as well. Your
approach is more complete. I really should get more familiar with it
and use it more.
richard
On Apr 10, 12:19 pm, Andreas Politz <poli...@fh-trier.de> 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?
>
> > Richard.
>
> I would use dired for this. First create a dired buffer with the files,
> or a superset it, with `dired', `find-dired' or some other incarnation.
>
> Then
> M-x wdired-change-to-dired-mode RET
> and it let's you edit the file-names, after which you press `C-c C-c'
> and commit the changes to the filesystem.
>
> -ap
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', (continued)
- 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, 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', 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
- Re: How to modify 'write-file',
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