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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Simple minibuffer completion question
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:52:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4pnjjhr3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1176550384.941960.180950@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> (bmaron2@hotmail.com)

> From: bmaron2@hotmail.com
> Date: 14 Apr 2007 04:33:04 -0700
> 
> Lets say you're editing a file named reallylongfilename.foo. You want
> to save a copy and call it reallylongfilename2.foo.
> 
> If I do a C-x C-w, emacs prompts me for the new file name. Now, how
> can I get it to insert the default file name (reallylongfilename.foo),
> but still allow me to edit the text?

Press either down-arrow or M-n, and Emacs will do what you want.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-14 11:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-14 11:33 Simple minibuffer completion question bmaron2
2007-04-14 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2069.1176551798.7795.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-04-14 13:18   ` bmaron2
2007-04-14 19:47 ` Dieter Wilhelm

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