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From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Reich=F6r?= <stefan@xsteve.at>
Subject: (:a) specifier for not existent files
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:12:49 +0200
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Hi,

I am using the (:a) specifier to get absoulte file paths. But this works
only for existing files. Is there a way to make it work for not existing
files also?

These are some experiments:

% echo .(:a)
/home/stefan/work
% echo tgz(:a)
/home/stefan/work/tgz
% echo tgz2(:a)
zsh: no matches found: tgz2(:a)


And here is the function that uses the above feature:

function ec
{
    emacsclient --no-wait $1(:a)
}


It would be nice to allow the creation of not existing files in emacsclient...


Thanks,
  Stefan.