From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About file saving
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:08:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874osm8w72.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b88d56e5-1ac8-44a4-bcba-a30f9e949cf0@b25g2000prb.googlegroups.com>
At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:46:48 -0700 (PDT),
ibear <bearsprite@gmail.com> 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.
HTH,
Anselm
--
Anselm Helbig
mailto:anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-05 9:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-05 8:46 About file saving ibear
2009-08-05 9:08 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
2009-08-05 13:52 ` ibear
2009-08-06 7:39 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-06 8:49 ` Anselm Helbig
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