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>>>>> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:33:53 +0200
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

    > Adrian Lanz <lanz@wsl.ch> writes:
    >> Afterwards in line
    >> 
    >> (setq mm-default-directory (file-name-directory file))
    >> 
    >> (file-name-directory file) returns nil and mm-default-directory
    >> is set to nil. Does it really work for you as expected?

    > Ah, right.  So it works the first time, but not the second.  I've
    > now fixed this.

Thanks. But, there is still a change to the old behaviour, I am quite
sure. Or, if not, I propose the following change.

The user should be prompted for "<directory>/<filename>", not just
"<directory/". The reason is, that this way a user can easily change the
filename, if needed, not only the directory name.

I get quite often revised versions of documents under the same filename,
for instance, or documents with the same filename from different users
(minutes.doc, index.html, screen.png, calendar.ics, ...), which I would
like to change easily (and after mm-file-name-rewrite-functions has been
applied). What do you think?

Best, Adrian.