From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs equivalent of vi % Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:34:55 +0200 Message-ID: <48A2AABF.9010402@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218620260 21121 80.91.229.12 (13 Aug 2008 09:37:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 09:37:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 13 11:38:31 2008 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 1KTCnq-00030D-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:38:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49255 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTCmt-0003hL-6g for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:37:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTCky-0002hk-Rx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KTCkx-0002gf-4I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41298 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KTCkw-0002gS-PG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:57052) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KTCkw-0006Bi-Ad for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:35:02 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:63805 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KTCkt-0007bl-8r; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:35:00 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080812-0, 2008-08-12), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KTCkt-0007bl-8r. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KTCkt-0007bl-8r f44114edc3a70a0ef09714d3e74ba358 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:56547 Archived-At: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/ViKeys Rustom Mody wrote: > In vi one can do, for example, > :!gcc % > and the current file gets compiled -- ingeneral : > :!someCommand options % otherStuff > and the filename gets interpolated. > Is there any way to get the '%' behavior in emacs? > [Note: I know about compile; I am asking a more general question about > getting the filename] > > >