* simply saving a text file to a directory OS X
@ 2016-12-01 1:44 Matthew Pritchard
2016-12-01 2:02 ` John Mastro
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From: Matthew Pritchard @ 2016-12-01 1:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I want to work with a file and save it to a specific directory. what is a simple way to do this.
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2016-12-01 1:44 simply saving a text file to a directory OS X Matthew Pritchard
@ 2016-12-01 2:02 ` John Mastro
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From: John Mastro @ 2016-12-01 2:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; +Cc: Matthew Pritchard
Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
> I want to work with a file and save it to a specific directory. what
> is a simple way to do this.
Do you mean when using Emacs interactively, or in Emacs Lisp code?
If the former, Emacs's equivalent to "save as" is the command
`write-file', which has the key binding `C-x C-w' by default. After
typing `C-x C-w' you'll be prompted for where to save the file. You can
either enter a complete file name, or just a directory name (in which
case the file will be saved in that directory with its existing base
name). I suggest working through the tutorial, which you can start by
typing `C-h t'.
If the latter, it will often look something like:
(let ((file "/path/to/file.txt")
(destination "/path/to/destination.txt"))
(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents file)
;; work with the file's contents...
(write-region nil nil destination)))
Hope that helps
John
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