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Re: About file saving


From: Xah Lee
Subject: Re: About file saving
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 00:39:21 -0700 (PDT)
User-agent: G2/1.0

On Aug 5, 2:08 am, Anselm Helbig <anselm.helbig
+news2...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> At Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:46:48 -0700 (PDT),
>
> ibear <bearspr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > emacs 23.1.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600), build by myself under windows
> > xp
>
> > In a folder there is a file "XXX.abc", and I want to save the buffer
> > to a new file "XXX.ab"
> > so I press C-x C-w and input the string "XXX.ab" and press RET, emacs
> > autocomplete the "XXX.ab" to "XXX.abc" and just save the buffer to
> > "XXX.abc" not "XXX.ab"!
>
> > Why?
>
> Are you using ido-mode? Well, I do. You should be able to save it to
> XXX.ab if you use C-j instead of RET, then. The whole point of
> ido-mode is that you shouldn't need to type in complete filenames, so
> it makes sense to pick the best match on RET.
>

lol. it seems to me a dangerous bug.

 Xah


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