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Re: simply saving a text file to a directory OS X
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John Mastro |
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Re: simply saving a text file to a directory OS X |
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Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:02:16 -0800 |
Matthew Pritchard <wintermute24x7@icloud.com> wrote:
> I want to work with a file and save it to a specific directory. what
> is a simple way to do this.
Do you mean when using Emacs interactively, or in Emacs Lisp code?
If the former, Emacs's equivalent to "save as" is the command
`write-file', which has the key binding `C-x C-w' by default. After
typing `C-x C-w' you'll be prompted for where to save the file. You can
either enter a complete file name, or just a directory name (in which
case the file will be saved in that directory with its existing base
name). I suggest working through the tutorial, which you can start by
typing `C-h t'.
If the latter, it will often look something like:
(let ((file "/path/to/file.txt")
(destination "/path/to/destination.txt"))
(with-temp-buffer
(insert-file-contents file)
;; work with the file's contents...
(write-region nil nil destination)))
Hope that helps
John