From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: rename file in dired based on current [T2C round 3] Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 04:53:33 +0100 Message-ID: <874kmf3t1e.fsf@zoho.eu> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15194"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:z5ydLbZDIqyTvY+/FtW1Iu5XqoI= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 28 04:54:22 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXcXV-0003rT-RS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 04:54:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58508 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXcXU-0004qe-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:54:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXcWu-0004qL-R5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:48288 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kXcWs-0006Xh-Vn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 23:53:44 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kXcWp-0003BK-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Oct 2020 04:53:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/27 14:36:55 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:124768 Archived-At: T2C - The Emacs Challenge Competition - round 3 How do you rename a file in dired, and get the previous/current as a suggestion? Let's say it is called salma-hayek.png and you want to rename it salma-hayek-bandidas-2006.png, it is useful to get the first part spelled out, right? (defun dired-do-rename-suggest () (interactive) (let*((file (dired-get-filename)) (old-name (dired-get-filename 'no-dir)) (new-name (read-from-minibuffer "rename to: " old-name)) ) (dired-rename-file file new-name nil) ; (NOT) OK-IF-ALREADY-EXISTS (revert-buffer) )) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal