From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename-file
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:35:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f77704b0908261335y799ec0a4r74c69d9c36a82234@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveiqy759z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Stefan Monnier<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Why isn't the buffer, which is visiting a file, renamed
>> when I rename the underlying file with rename-file?
>
> Because rename-file is a low-level function. Maybe we should introduce
> a new command rename-file-buffer which automatically applies to the
> current buffer's file.
OK to commit?
(defun rename-buffer-file (new-name)
"Rename the current buffer and the file it is visiting to NEW-NAME."
(interactive "FRename current file and buffer to: ")
(let ((filename (or buffer-file-name
(error "This buffer is not visiting a file")))
(oldbuf (find-buffer-visiting new-name)))
(when (or (null oldbuf)
(y-or-n-p "Buffer %s is already visiting %s, proceed? "
oldbuf new-name))
(rename-file filename new-name 1)
(set-visited-file-name new-name nil t))))
--
Sam Steingold <http://sds.podval.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 20:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 16:05 rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 18:58 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 3:16 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 8:38 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 9:09 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 10:01 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 10:21 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 11:28 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 11:50 ` rename-file Miles Bader
2009-08-27 14:59 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 12:18 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 17:08 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 19:21 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 20:20 ` rename-file Lennart Borgman
2009-08-26 20:35 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2009-08-27 3:15 ` rename-file Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 3:25 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-27 3:41 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 17:11 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 0:46 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:09 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 14:47 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 20:42 ` rename-file martin rudalics
2009-08-27 13:49 ` rename-file Daniel Colascione
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