From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: what was the name of that file I just renamed? Date: 26 Jan 2003 07:36:04 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <878yx87qfv.fsf@jidanni.org> References: <87k7h71kmo.fsf@jidanni.org> <87u1g2zb4x.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043562702 19505 80.91.224.249 (26 Jan 2003 06:31:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 06:31:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cgKS-00054T-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:31:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cgLJ-0002iH-03 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cgLC-0002gp-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:32:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cgLB-0002fF-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:32:25 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18cgKe-0002P0-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:31:52 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cgJ1-00051f-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:30:11 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18cgIx-00051F-00 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 07:30:07 +0100 Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4312 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4312 >>>>> "F" == Francesco Potorti` writes: >> What was the name of that file I just renamed with R in dired? F> Just hit [undo] in the dired buffer. After looking at it, and possibly F> killing the old name, remember to hit `g' to refresh the dired buffer. That is nice but it seems that you are taking advantage of a chink in the emacs amour that allows one to undo something that actually does not get undone in reality: i.e. bad. An opium dream allowing one to undo things in one's fantasy world that are indeed not undone when the boss needs to use them. A hack. A kludge. A misty fantasy world giving the newly converted former MSDOS user a feeling of "hmmm, this new emacs world is indeed powerful after all" when infact it was a dired dream. Anyway, it was fun, it worked with emacs -q, but apparently there's something in my http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt that causes, thank goodness, "Buffer is read-only: #" OK, I can do C-x C-q and do what you say. Anyways, a better way to find what one has done today in dired would be: have some trace of what one has done in dired put into some command history buffer.