general emacs question: advising find-file

general emacs question: advising find-file

[Ted Stern]

Sorry, this is a general emacs question, but there are some find
defadvice programmers on this list.  I'll keep it short.

Is there a way to change the default "C-x C-f RET" so that it re-opens
the current file instead of the current directory?  What I want to do
is change the default find-file prompt to the current file.

Ted
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Re: general emacs question: advising find-file

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Apr 19 2005, Ted Stern wrote:

> Sorry, this is a general emacs question, but there are some find
> defadvice programmers on this list.  I'll keep it short.

Please ask in gnu.emacs.help or comp.emacs.

> Is there a way to change the default "C-x C-f RET" so that it re-opens
> the current file instead of the current directory?  

Use `C-x C-v RET'.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: general emacs question: advising find-file

[Alan Shutko]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> Use `C-x C-v RET'.

That loses the location of point.  M-x revert-buffer is what it used
to do.

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Re: general emacs question: advising find-file

[Karl Pflästerer]

On 19 Apr 2005, stern+gnus@cray.com wrote:

> Is there a way to change the default "C-x C-f RET" so that it re-opens
> the current file instead of the current directory?  What I want to do
> is change the default find-file prompt to the current file.

That's certainly easy possible but why don't you just use `C-x C-v'
(`find-alternate-file')?


   KP

Re: general emacs question: advising find-file

[Ted Stern]

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On 19 Apr 2005 at 12:56 UTC-0700, Karl Pflästerer wrote:
>On 19 Apr 2005, stern+gnus@cray.com wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change the default "C-x C-f RET" so that it re-opens
>> the current file instead of the current directory?  What I want to do
>> is change the default find-file prompt to the current file.
>
> That's certainly easy possible but why don't you just use `C-x C-v'
> (`find-alternate-file')?

I agree, that would be easier, but I have a question from a user who
has been using the old C-x C-f functionality for over 10 years and
doesn't want to relearn keystrokes.

The find-file function [specifically the "(interactive ...)" line]
changed sometime between Emacs 21.3 and Emacs 22.0.50.

Ted
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 Ted Stern                                 Applications Group
 Cray Inc.                               office: 206-701-2182
 411 First Avenue South, Suite 600         cell: 206-383-1049
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 Frango ut patefaciam -- I break so that I may reveal
 (The Paleontological Society motto, equally apropos for debugging)