From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: 12394@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12394: 24.2.50; wdired: error when wdired-use-interactive-rename is non-nil
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86627k7691.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87392re0su.fsf@web.de> (Michael Heerdegen's message of "Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:19:29 +0200")
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> when you have set `wdired-use-interactive-rename' to non-nil, and you
> add something to the front of a filename when in wdired-mode, you get
> an error after hitting C-c C-c.
But wait. There are many more problems with
`wdired-use-interactive-rename' non-nil.
All in emacs -Q:
1. When I hit ! at the prompt after hitting C-c C-c to perform changes,
this has not the desired effect. Emacs still asks me one time for every
remaining renaming action.
2. If I hit n when Emacs prompts, I get this error:
dired-create-files: No buffer named *Dired log*
3. I also noticed that `wdired-use-interactive-rename' non-nil is not
usable at all when circular renamings are to be done. You end up with
files renamed to a temporary name. E.g. try to switch the names of two
files, and see what you get.
To sum up, setting `wdired-use-interactive-rename' to a non-nil value
breaks many many things.
I also think that the questions you would get when performing circular
renamings would confuse many users, if we would get it work.
In general, IMHO `wdired-use-interactive-rename' is not very useful at
all. I never used it, and the fact that all these problems were never
reported by anyone before indicates that not many people are using it.
I suggest to remove it completely. Instead, it would be better to
ask the user in a way similar to e.g. C in dired, like
Really perform these renamings?
a -> b
b -> a
file-x -> file-y
...
But I'm open to other suggestions. Any opinions?
Thanks,
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-11 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-09 14:19 bug#12394: 24.2.50; wdired: error when wdired-use-interactive-rename is non-nil Michael Heerdegen
2012-09-11 18:40 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2016-01-29 18:16 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-02-02 12:08 ` martin rudalics
2016-01-29 18:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-09-13 17:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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