From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rename-file
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:21:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zl9ld0b3.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wh5efts.fsf@escher.local.home> (Stephen Berman's message of "Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:01:03 +0200")
Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:
> If that is so, then the doc string should be changed to "A name of the
> file visited in the current buffer...", to avoid confusion.
No, that's very wrong. There can be only at most one name associated
with any buffer.
> 1. C-x C-f bla
> 2. C-h v buffer-file-name => bla
> 3. M-x rename-file RET blabla
> 4. C-h v buffer-file-name => bla
>
> Surely the return value in step 4 is unwanted, isn't it?
The visited name of the buffer didn't change in any way whatsoever.
Only set-visited-file-name can do that.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-27 10:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 16:05 rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 18:58 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 3:16 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-27 8:38 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 9:09 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 10:01 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 10:21 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-08-27 11:28 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 11:50 ` rename-file Miles Bader
2009-08-27 14:59 ` rename-file Stephen Berman
2009-08-27 12:18 ` rename-file Andreas Schwab
2009-08-27 17:08 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 19:21 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-26 20:20 ` rename-file Lennart Borgman
2009-08-26 20:35 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 3:15 ` rename-file Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-27 3:25 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-27 3:41 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 17:11 ` rename-file Stefan Monnier
2009-08-29 0:46 ` rename-file Richard Stallman
2009-08-31 22:09 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-27 14:47 ` rename-file Sam Steingold
2009-08-26 20:42 ` rename-file martin rudalics
2009-08-27 13:49 ` rename-file Daniel Colascione
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