From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename buffer but overwrite already existing one
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 21:35:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d092c19h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2rq98po.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:23:15 +0100)
> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:23:15 +0100
>
> >> Couldn't rename-buffer, optionally, overwrite the content of a buffer.
>
> > Yes, but it's called copy-to-buffer, not rename-buffer.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out to me, but I have to mark the whole buffer
> first, which is a but inconvenient, I say.
That's just "C-x h" away.
> Couldn't there an argument added so that with the argument the whole
> buffer is copied?
I suggest to submit a feature request.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-23 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-23 18:05 rename buffer but overwrite already existing one Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-23 19:24 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 19:23 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 19:35 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-23 19:46 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 19:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-03-23 19:43 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 20:02 ` Stephen Berman
2020-03-23 20:49 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-03-23 21:21 ` Stephen Berman
2020-03-24 9:17 ` Uwe Brauer
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