From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "D. Goel" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: It is prompting me for a filename. I would like to fill in the current filename. Date: 09 Apr 2002 10:11:04 -0400 Organization: University of Maryland College Park Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018361533 21733 127.0.0.1 (9 Apr 2002 14:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16uwM0-0005eP-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:12:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uwLv-0002mP-00; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:12:07 -0400 Original-Received: from chx400.switch.ch ([130.59.10.2]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uwLJ-0002lj-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 10:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from grapevine.wam.umd.edu ([128.8.10.18]) by chx400.switch.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16uwLH-0004qt-00 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 16:11:27 +0200 Original-Received: from grapevine.wam.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grapevine.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA26272 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:11:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from news@localhost) by grapevine.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA26268 for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 10:11:05 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: fosters.umd.edu Original-X-Trace: grapevine.wam.umd.edu 1018361464 26068 129.2.106.74 (9 Apr 2002 14:11:04 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@wam.umd.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 14:11:04 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:517 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:517 schwab@suse.de (Andreas Schwab) writes: > "D. Goel" writes: > > |> > Then why don't you just use M-n? > |> > |> i think Dan explained that in the post.. > > I don't think so. M-n is explicitly mentioned in NEWS, and properly > documented in the Emacs manual. So he could just read the docs. Dan said: ,---- | Sure we can use M-p and M-n, they will give us recent choices but not | the current filename in question. `---- And indeed, recent choices may have nothing to do with the current filename, AFAICT. (only if you opened the file recently, and made a minor change without doing too much else, will the filename will be in recent history... ) ... unless i am missing your point? i can't deduce anything more from your one-liner of: > |> > Then why don't you just use M-n? > D -- Signature? Naah. Just some recently visited websites: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers_pr.html