From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johan Vromans Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ! in Dired--what was the outcome? Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:26:37 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <87vfdgezro.fsf@jurta.org> <200410130301.i9D31GM02856@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1097742436 18170 80.91.229.6 (14 Oct 2004 08:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 14 10:27:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CI0x0-0000uq-00 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:27:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CI144-0003KZ-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CI13w-0003KO-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:34:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CI13v-0003Jz-8N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CI13u-0003Jw-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:34:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.109.24.23] (helo=smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CI0wY-00021O-J0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from phoenix.squirrel.nl (sioban.squirrel.nl [213.84.56.213]) by smtp-vbr3.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9E8QbL9096968 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:26:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jv@squirrel.nl) Original-Received: by phoenix.squirrel.nl (Postfix, from userid 501) id 489829C1B0; Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:26:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:43:24 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:28380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:28380 Richard Stallman 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