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From: jla@AI.MIT.EDU (Joseph Arceneaux)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: find-alternate-file
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Date: 19 Jun 89 23:49:50 GMT
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The current implementation of find-alternate-file for version 19
appends the filename of the current buffer to the prompt string.  This
is annoying to some people and I am thinking of changing this.

One possibility is to append the filename with point positioned just
before it, making it easier to do C-k on it.  Another thought was to
have any non-control character automatically kill the filename.  Yet
another possibility is to not insert the filename, but have it present
in a variable, which could then be inserted in a keystroke.

If you have an opinion about this feature, I would be interested to
hear it.