From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to modify 'write-file' Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:36:01 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87bpdpftpa.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87ochrgpbd.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> <9f65fba7-3fba-40b6-ad86-75aa4f336b91@g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273005801 6392 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 20:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:43:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:43:20 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9OxY-00007d-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:43:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Oph-0006sK-9D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 16:35:09 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Trace: individual.net Ssel3ArUHclqbAzpa4L7uQXxvEKetnM3zHAdR2j5G3drXisXUt Cancel-Lock: sha1:NzRlMTUzOTk1MTFhYzRlYTI1OGE1YzVlODMyODk4MDAxMWE4OTRlMQ== sha1:fQrZBJmp/+15ZgFBuf6jkAwS3AI= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177679 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73142 Archived-At: "richard.christensen" writes: > On Apr 10, 12:00 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) > wrote: >> "richard.christensen" 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__