From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple minibuffer completion question
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:52:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pnjjhr3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176550384.941960.180950@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> (bmaron2@hotmail.com)
> From: bmaron2@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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-14 11:52 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-14 11:33 Simple minibuffer completion question bmaron2
2007-04-14 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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2007-04-14 13:18 ` bmaron2
2007-04-14 19:47 ` Dieter Wilhelm
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