From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: renaming current file and buffer Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:40:32 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <87u0cmclgy.fsf@hans.local.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139467524 11647 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2006 06:45:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:45:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 09 07:45:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F75YQ-0001kq-7H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:45:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F75YP-0001e8-F7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:45:21 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1139467232 15416 166.84.1.2 (9 Feb 2006 06:40:32 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 06:40:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:137467 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:33091 Archived-At: In article , Peter Dyballa wrote: >Is this better? > > dired-dwim-target is a variable defined in `dired.el'. > Its value is t > > Documentation: > *If non-nil, Dired tries to guess a default target directory. > This means: if there is a dired buffer displayed in the next window, > use its current subdir, instead of the current subdir of this dired >buffer. > > The target is used in the prompt for file copy, rename etc. > > You can customize this variable. > > >'dwim' stands for 'do what I mean.' > >-- >Greetings > > Pete > >Eat the rich -- the poor are tough and stringy. Thanks much David