From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About file saving Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:39:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <23a94dbd-da2f-4dc5-811b-a8135e56ed88@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <874osm8w72.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249592894 28135 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2009 21:08:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 21:08:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 23:08:06 2009 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 4.50) id 1MZABw-0000Kh-7M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:08:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZABv-0007Pv-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:08:03 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249544362 30600 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2009 07:39:22 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 07:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.39 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171665 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:48:58 -0400 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:66888 Archived-At: On Aug 5, 2:08=A0am, Anselm Helbig wrote: > At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:46:48 -0700 (PDT), > > ibear wrote: > > > emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600), build by myself under windows > > xp > > > In a folder there is a file "XXX.abc", and I want to save the buffer > > to a new file "XXX.ab" > > so I press C-x C-w and input the string "XXX.ab" and press RET, emacs > > autocomplete the "XXX.ab" to "XXX.abc" and just save the buffer to > > "XXX.abc" not "XXX.ab"! > > > Why? > > Are you using ido-mode? Well, I do. You should be able to save it to > XXX.ab if you use C-j instead of RET, then. The whole point of > ido-mode is that you shouldn't need to type in complete filenames, so > it makes sense to pick the best match on RET. > lol. it seems to me a dangerous bug. Xah