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Default value in file name completion #152

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hpdeifel opened this issue Jun 18, 2015 · 2 comments
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Default value in file name completion #152

hpdeifel opened this issue Jun 18, 2015 · 2 comments

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@hpdeifel
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Many file operations (such as copy-file, delete-file or even find-file) provide the current file as default value to completing-read, when called interactively. So copying the current file should only be a M-x copy-file RET M-n RET new-file RET away.

Unfortunately, M-n inserts the whole absolute file name in the minibuffer, which ivy can't handle. (It inserts /current-directory/absolute/path/of/file).

An option would be to detect if the history entry is an absolute path and in that case, replace the whole minibuffer content instead of only the part after the last slash.
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abo-abo commented Jun 18, 2015

Thanks for pointing this out. Please test this and give feedback. I think it looks OK, I didn't have an Ido behavior for a reference, since there's only ido-find-file and not ido-copy-file.

abo-abo added a commit that referenced this issue Jun 18, 2015
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Put the file instead of partial input on history
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* ivy.el (ivy-read): When completing file names, put the whole file name
on history, not just the partial input that lead to that name.
This is important in order for `ivy--cd-maybe' to work.

Re #152
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works great so far, thanks!

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