From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to modify 'write-file' Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:19:48 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <87tyrjgofv.fsf@fh-trier.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273005796 6373 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 20:43:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 20:43:16 +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 22:43:15 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 1O9OxV-00007d-4s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 22:43:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9Okh-0002K6-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 16:30:00 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1270923728 12680 143.93.54.11 (10 Apr 2010 18:22:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:22:08 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vkB3lKhm1UXP8q0X2w3UXNCmC+I= Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-088-068-201-032.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177671 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:73138 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? > > Richard. I would use dired for this. First create a dired buffer with the files, or a superset it, with `dired', `find-dired' or some other incarnation. Then M-x wdired-change-to-dired-mode RET and it let's you edit the file-names, after which you press `C-c C-c' and commit the changes to the filesystem. -ap