From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rename, delete and move current buffer and file Date: Wed, 09 May 2018 08:28:27 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1525868846 25068 195.159.176.226 (9 May 2018 12:27:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 12:27:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 09 14:27:22 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fGOBk-0006Pi-7x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:27:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGODr-00005B-8e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 08:29:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48636) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGOD1-0008Vl-Au for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 08:28:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGOCx-00085A-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 08:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=35481 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fGOCx-00082x-71 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 08:28:35 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fGOAo-0005Ms-Ao for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 May 2018 14:26:22 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:aEHbo4aqAK0Jlpe8I/jaq+XTZrc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225164 Archived-At: > I do not understand what you have in mind with write-file. This creates a > copy, which is natural given the name. Do you envision some changes to it? Not sure what happened, but my first answer said: so maybe we could instead have `C-x C-w` prompt the user "delete the old file (y or n)?" -- Stefan