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Re: ido.el, usability when saving a new file
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: ido.el, usability when saving a new file |
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Thu, 08 Jun 2006 11:54:42 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
>>>>> "KFS" == Kim F Storm <no-spam@cua.dk> writes:
>> which is fine if it's where you want it to go. But otherwise, you
>> have to delete "theNewFileToSave.txt" and then navigate to the
>> directory that you want.
>>
>> When you get there, say
>>
>> ~/scratch
>>
>> you now have to type the file name in again (if you select
>> ~/scratch alone, ido asks you if you want to overwrite the file
>> which already exists.
KFS> When I use C-x C-w with ido, it gives me the option to select
KFS> the directory where to save the file so I just navigate to the
KFS> desired target directory, and press C-j. Ido then saves the
KFS> file with the current file name [unless I have entered another
KFS> name].
KFS> So doing what you want is trivial with ido.
Hmmm. This is not the behaviour that I an getting. I have just tried
this with emacs -Q. I am getting the following...
1) Open ~/documents/books.txt
2) C-xC-w offers ~/documents/books.txt
3) navigate to ~/scratch
4) C-j to save (I didn't know C-j before so I have learnt something
here!)
5) File is saved in ~/documents/books.txt
I am guessing that this is, then, a bug. Incidentally, this does
reset the default-directory for books.txt buffer to ~/scratch
KFS> In general, if you want to find the current file in another
KFS> directory, you can do it with the following keystrokes:
KFS> C-x C-f - ido-find-file <navigate to target directory> C-w -
KFS> insert current file name (C-w C-w may be needed) RET or C-j -
KFS> open file.
Okay, I will try these out.
KFS> If you have entered a file name, but realize that it is not in
KFS> the current directory, you can "push it away" and navigate to
KFS> another location like this:
KFS> C-x C-f - ido-find-file xyzzy - enter a file name M-b or M-v -
KFS> push entered text or first matching item navigate using M-BS
KFS> and M-SPC M-f - pop C-j or RET -
>> Anyone got any suggestions. Am I missing something?
KFS> And of course, you can just M-x cd before using C-x C-w...
yep, I've worked this out now and it works very well; except if you
sending lots of emails with attachments from the same directory --
then you have to use M-x cd in the *Group* buffer.
So, it looks like there is a bug here somewhere. I am using the CVS
version as supplied by EmacsW32. As I said, I've run this using -Q,
although I have had to do
(setq tramp-default-method "ssh") to fix a recursive load bug that I
was having.
I shall try updating my emacs and see if that changes things.
Cheers
Phil