From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to modify 'write-file' Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:00:54 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ochrgpbd.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273005800 6384 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 20:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:43:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 04 22:43:20 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9Oxb-00007d-1D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:43:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Oje-0001rX-CF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 16:28:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Trace: individual.net HanZrPVAQFeo7BMy03/BZwJMiRv6jW+jWmLfA+ddbMNRgavX0v Cancel-Lock: sha1:YTExYWY1NjUyOTExYmYwNjE0MTQ0NTk2Y2RhOWI2NGI4ZDk1YjA5NQ== sha1:vgU+Tf9jSv9kWMWX/NwKwVHn9Is= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177670 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73139 Archived-At: "richard.christensen" writes: > Hi, I write and modify many files with long names in which I need to > save the changed file to a similar name as the original but with a few > letters or numbers changed. A useful modification to write-file would > be to have the current file name to be placed in the minibuffer along > with the path when write-file is called. Then modifying the name would > be simple. How would I do this? Ideas? Add the (buffer-name) as initial value to the first call to read-file-name: (interactive (list (if buffer-file-name (read-file-name "Write file: " default-directory (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-name)) default-directory) nil (buffer-name)) (read-file-name "Write file: " default-directory (expand-file-name (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-name)) default-directory) nil nil)) (not current-prefix-arg))) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__