From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "leo" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to make dired-do-rename more friendly? Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:52:50 +1100 Organization: Netspace Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069297316 10885 80.91.224.253 (20 Nov 2003 03:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 03:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 20 04:01:54 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AMf4s-0006Lm-00 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 04:01:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AMg07-0006Va-OY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:01:03 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news1.optus.net.au!optus!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.netspace.net.au!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl-210-15-204-246.nsw.netspace.net.au Original-X-Trace: otis.netspace.net.au 1069297125 24468 210.15.204.246 (20 Nov 2003 02:58:45 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@otis.netspace.net.au Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:58:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118466 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14407 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14407 hi there i use dired a lot and rename works ok, but it would be handy to copy the existing name by default into the minibuffer or at least do it with a quick mini-buffer key stroke. example: sitting on the file /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name i invoke dired-do-rename (by key "R") and get a minibuffer just with: /Users/leo/ and i want some easy to get to /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name so that i can quickly change it to: /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name-two at the moment it might quite some tab-completion if you have other files with names like my-other-text, my-text-other, my-text-with-other, etc... any ideas? are there some custom-vars or hidden key-stroke which could be helpful? or is there an additional package recommendable? thanks a lot, leo