From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: writing a file to disc Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:56:36 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196265587 22328 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2007 15:59:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:59:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 16:59:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxPJv-0007mf-Ai for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:59:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPJg-0002Lo-1V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:59:12 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPJN-0002IE-B0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:53 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPJK-0002Fx-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPJK-0002Fm-3r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:50 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IxPJJ-0004N6-RZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:58:50 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPIW-0003wV-KV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:58:00 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:58:00 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:58:00 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Macintosh/20070809) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:49642 Archived-At: rahed wrote: > Hi, > > I have a file in a buffer and want to write it (C-x C-w) to disc under a > different name. At the same time I want to leave in the > buffer only the original one. > > Is there a some simple key binding to do it? How about: (defun clone-file (filename) "Clone the current buffer and write the new buffer into file FILENAME." (interactive "FWrite file: ") (let* ((buffer-file-name nil)) (with-current-buffer (clone-buffer nil (interactive-p)) (write-file filename (interactive-p))))) (global-set-key "\C-xW" 'clone-file) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA