Re: Expected macro behavior (was: Macros don't work in Dired)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David desJardins <david@desjardins.org>
> Date: 18 Aug 2001 23:37:32 -0700
> 
> I don't know why you think you can't do that.  I have no problem
> defining and using a macro which uses the Dired 'R' command to rename a
> file.  I did:
> 
> C-x ( R f o o return C-x )

The OP's intent was to have only "R" in the macro, so that the same
macro could be used for renaming to a name given by the user
interactively.  By contrast, your macro always renames to `foo'.