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Re: Simple minibuffer completion question


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Simple minibuffer completion question
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:52:00 +0300

> 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.




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