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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' |
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Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:29 -0000 |
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Hi Pascal,
I am sorry for being thick. I have tried several things and have
tried to do some
reading about how to implement this code. I can't get anything to
work. I can
see what appears to be the correct words on the minibuffer, but upon
hitting enter,
either nothing happens or I get an error about wrong number of
arguments.
Should I be doing this (defun write-file (arg) or should I be creating
a new function?
I see that a list is created but I am sure the write-file does not
want the "Write file:" text
to be part of the operation. So, some how I need to re-direct the
path and file name from the list
back to the write-function. Am I missing anything else?
Richard.
On Apr 11, 5:36 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> "richard.christensen" <richard.christen...@avagotech.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> You have to replace the interactive form in the write-file definition
> and eval-region the write-file defun.
>
> interactive alone doesn't do anything.
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__
- 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, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file',
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- 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