From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome?
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:26:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m27jptvh6q.fsf@phoenix.squirrel.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CHtiG-0005sg-UB@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:43:24 -0400")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> Maybe I should mention a possible simpler solution, proposed in
> private email by Johan Vromans to use {} instead of ?, in analogy with
> the -exec argument of find(1).
>
> mv {} .{}.uu
>
> That could be a good idea.
Likewise, {} could be made available to 'shell-command' as well, to
make it easy to run arbitrary commands on the file associated with the
current buffer. For example C-x C-s M-! cp {} {}.save RET before
starting to make possibly hazardous changes...
-- Johan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 8:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-21 18:30 ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Richard Stallman
2004-09-21 19:48 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2004-09-22 1:44 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-09-22 2:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-03 1:19 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-03 1:44 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-04 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:41 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-04 15:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-10-04 17:27 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-04 2:43 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-05 18:04 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-06 23:03 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-07 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-12 15:12 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-13 3:01 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-10-13 8:40 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 0:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 8:26 ` Johan Vromans [this message]
2004-10-14 9:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-14 9:56 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-14 16:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-15 10:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-15 18:06 ` Juri Linkov
2004-10-16 13:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-14 23:30 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15 4:13 ` Miles Bader
2004-10-15 8:12 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 8:56 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-14 9:45 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-14 23:48 ` Reinhard Kotucha
2004-10-15 8:15 ` David Kastrup
2004-10-13 14:42 ` Richard Stallman
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