From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@riseup.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 19:04:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834ljfpkdh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180510082005.6pfpostuxcuzfutt@isis.luna> (message from Amit Ramon on Thu, 10 May 2018 11:20:05 +0300)
> Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 11:20:05 +0300
> From: Amit Ramon <amit.ramon@riseup.net>
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> [2018-05-09 08:28 -0400]:
>
> >> I do not understand what you have in mind with write-file. This creates a
> >> copy, which is natural given the name. Do you envision some changes to it?
> >
> >Not sure what happened, but my first answer said:
> >
> > so maybe we could instead have `C-x C-w` prompt the user
> > "delete the old file (y or n)?"
>
> For me the use case for using C-x C-w is not to move a file, but to
> create a copy of a file leaving the original file untouched -- for
> example if I want to create a new file but I want to start from an
> existing one as a template.
Let me remind people that "C-x C-w" is the Emacs implementation of the
"Save As" paradigm, so it must stay as it is today. It would be
possible to make it do something slightly different given an argument,
but it already accepts an argument and interprets it in a different
way. Maybe we could do the renaming with some special value of the
argument, though.
But the default behavior should definitely stay, IMO.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-10 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 13:58 Rename, delete and move current buffer and file Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-07 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 16:20 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-07 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 17:47 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-08 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-08 7:05 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-09 12:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-09 18:12 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-05-09 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-10 17:01 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-05-10 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-11 7:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-11 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-11 15:45 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-11 16:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-11 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-09 23:50 ` Van L
2018-05-10 5:37 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-10 13:18 ` Van L
2018-05-10 8:20 ` Amit Ramon
2018-05-10 8:59 ` Phil Sainty
2018-05-10 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-05-07 18:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-08 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 15:28 ` Yuri Khan
2018-05-07 16:20 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-09 11:46 ` Tino Calancha
2018-05-07 15:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-07 15:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-10 0:46 ` net june
2018-05-11 6:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-11 16:10 ` net june
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