From: bmaron2@hotmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple minibuffer completion question
Date: 14 Apr 2007 06:18:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1176556681.290449.259550@y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2069.1176551798.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Apr 14, 6:52 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: bmar...@hotmail.com
> > Date: 14 Apr 2007 04:33:04 -0700
>
> > Lets say you're editing a file named reallylongfilename.foo. You want
> > to save a copy and call it reallylongfilename2.foo.
>
> > If I do a C-x C-w, emacs prompts me for the new file name. Now, how
> > can I get it to insert the default file name (reallylongfilename.foo),
> > but still allow me to edit the text?
>
> Press either down-arrow or M-n, and Emacs will do what you want.
Brilliant, thanks Eli!!!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-14 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-14 11:33 Simple minibuffer completion question bmaron2
2007-04-14 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.2069.1176551798.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-14 13:18 ` bmaron2 [this message]
2007-04-14 19:47 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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