From: Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About file saving
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 10:49:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz0l72em.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23a94dbd-da2f-4dc5-811b-a8135e56ed88@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
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At Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:39:21 -0700 (PDT),
Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 5, 2:08 am, Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig
> +news2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:46:48 -0700 (PDT),
> >
> > ibear <bearspr...@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.
> >
>
> lol. it seems to me a dangerous bug.
Well, there's a reason why ido-mode isn't enabled by default. I mean,
that's why our .emacs files get so big: so we can enable all that
confusing, useful stuff. 8-)
Greetings,
Anselm
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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
2009-08-05 13:52 ` ibear
2009-08-06 7:39 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-06 8:49 ` Anselm Helbig [this message]
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