From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73769 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Adrian Lanz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: mm-default-directory not honoured Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:46:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288601303 7121 80.91.229.12 (1 Nov 2010 08:48:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 08:48:23 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M22138@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Nov 01 09:48:16 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCq3r-0002Sg-39 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:48:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PCq31-0007BC-Uc; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:47:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PCq30-0007Aw-4o for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:47:22 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PCq2v-0003QL-G9 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 03:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1PCq2u-0008Im-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:47:16 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PCq2u-000292-Lv for ding@gnus.org; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:47:16 +0100 Original-Received: from public.wsl.ch ([193.134.202.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:47:16 +0100 Original-Received: from lanz by public.wsl.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:47:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: public.wsl.ch User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:HvJFJg4JxRhbqRg2t6Qm1hzDOxU= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73769 Archived-At: >>>>> On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:01:01 +0200 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Adrian Lanz writes: >> The user should be prompted for "/", not >> just "> easily change the filename, if needed, not only the directory >> name. > I may be misremembering how this works, but doesn't `M-p' give you > the directory and file name so that you can edit it? I think > that's how all these file prompting commands are supposed to work > these days... That's right, a lot is improving these days... That's great. Many thanks for this ,and for this hint. But, it seems, M-p prompts for previously used filenames, not for the (current default) name of the file in which the MIME part should be copied. My work case is the following: I often just want to slightly modify the name of incoming mail attachments. Say, some draft document is sent out. Revisions come in from many people, all (most) under the original file name of the draft. In such cases, I used to add initials or numbers (or whatever) to filenames to keep the different versions of the modified document in the same directory. Until recently, I think, Gnus did prompt for the / and it was easy to change both by just editing the string in the mode line. In general, this option is (was) useful in cases where the default filename needs to be (slightly) changed (based on the default filename).