From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: how to make dired-do-rename more friendly?
Date: 20 Nov 2003 08:22:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud6bnimov.fsf@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bphal5$nsk$1@otis.netspace.net.au> (halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com)
> From: "leo" <halloleo@noospaam.myrealbox.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:52:50 +1100
>
> i use dired a lot and rename works ok, but it would be handy to copy the
> existing name by default into the minibuffer or at least do it with a quick
> mini-buffer key stroke.
>
> example: sitting on the file
> /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name
> i invoke dired-do-rename (by key "R") and get a minibuffer just with:
> /Users/leo/
> and i want some easy to get to
> /Users/leo/my-text-with-a-long-name
Did you try to press the DownArrow key or M-n?
The node "Minibuffer History" in the Emacs manual will tell you more
useful stuff about this and related commands and features.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 2:52 how to make dired-do-rename more friendly? leo
2003-11-20 6:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-11-20 6:53 ` Dryice Liu
2003-11-20 10:20 ` Harry Putnam
2003-11-20 18:06 ` Harry Putnam
[not found] ` <mailman.353.1069356131.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-11-21 5:05 ` leo
2003-11-20 18:39 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.322.1069327365.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-01-25 19:17 ` Jari Aalto+mail.emacs
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