From: Yuri Khan <yurivkhan@gmail.com>
To: jrzeszotko@gmail.com
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file
Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 15:28:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8UGq45W0b34W-TLVhjHOigm2mYmoPPHHgXxEJYtFAexSw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO_X8WDRDNfU_OL0AiXuFde8AdHfb6sfJOnCeioZeM=SsiJ0SQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 8:59 PM Jarosław Rzeszótko <jrzeszotko@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It is surprisingly hard to do this in Emacs […]
> You can use dired, but I personally find it to be a distraction for this
use case.
Why?
I think of deleting, renaming and moving as operations on the file as a
whole and not on its content, so saving the file and going “outside” it is
the intuitive first step for me. ‘dired-jump’ takes me to the Dired buffer
of the enclosing directory and puts point on the file. It’s on C-x C-j by
default, but I bind it on <M-S-up> so my fingers think going “outside” is a
single spatial movement.
If I want to delete the file, I press D and confirm. To rename, I press R
and enter the new name; the buffer is renamed automatically.
When copying or moving files, I prefer to see the target directory before I
do it. So, I split the window, switch there, navigate to the target
directory, switch back, R (or C to copy), RET (because with
‘dired-dwim-target’ set to non-nil the target directory is automatically
suggested as the default), then deal with any changes to the window
configuration.
Note here the DWIM behavior: R suggests the directory in the other window,
but if there is no other window, then the current directory.
> A very similar related pain point is that it is hard to get the path and
directory of the current buffers visited file.
Your favorite binding of ‘find-file’, followed by your preferred method to
get the current line to clipboard. (This breaks if you ‘cd’ to a different
directory while editing a file.)
> Finally, while we are discussing functions everyone re-implements in
their .emacs, please lets make transpose-windows happen as an Emacs builtin
:)
You mean the windcycle library?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-07 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-07 13:58 Rename, delete and move current buffer and file Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-07 14:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 16:20 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-07 17:01 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 17:47 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-08 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-08 7:05 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-09 12:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-09 18:12 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-05-09 22:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-10 17:01 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-05-10 21:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-11 7:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-11 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-11 15:45 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-11 16:06 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-05-11 16:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-09 23:50 ` Van L
2018-05-10 5:37 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-10 13:18 ` Van L
2018-05-10 8:20 ` Amit Ramon
2018-05-10 8:59 ` Phil Sainty
2018-05-10 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-07 18:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-05-08 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-05-07 15:28 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2018-05-07 16:20 ` Jarosław Rzeszótko
2018-05-09 11:46 ` Tino Calancha
2018-05-07 15:29 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-07 15:38 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-10 0:46 ` net june
2018-05-11 6:26 ` Andreas Röhler
2018-05-11 16:10 ` net june
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