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Re: How to modify 'write-file'
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Andreas Politz |
Subject: |
Re: How to modify 'write-file' |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 15:44:19 -0000 |
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"richard.christensen" <richard.christensen@avagotech.com> writes:
> Hi, I write and modify many files with long names in which I need to
> save the changed file to a similar name as the original but with a few
> letters or numbers changed. A useful modification to write-file would
> be to have the current file name to be placed in the minibuffer along
> with the path when write-file is called. Then modifying the name would
> be simple. How would I do this? Ideas?
>
> Richard.
I would use dired for this. First create a dired buffer with the files,
or a superset it, with `dired', `find-dired' or some other incarnation.
Then
M-x wdired-change-to-dired-mode RET
and it let's you edit the file-names, after which you press `C-c C-c'
and commit the changes to the filesystem.
-ap
- How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', richard.christensen, 2010/05/04
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Kevin Rodgers, 2010/05/06
- Re: How to modify 'write-file', Thierry Volpiatto, 2010/05/07
Re: How to modify 'write-file',
Andreas Politz <=