Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> I do use Helm when I wish to delete some files or move them around
> etc; I am not always dropping into Dired. But sometimes it is more
> convenient to do more "direct editing" and file management operations as
> in a conventional file manager. In those cases I find dired + wdired
> very nice.

Exactly, it is what Helm does, switching to dired+wdired but only with
needed files (in your case no need to have 2000 files in the dired
buffer when you want to edit only one or two files).

> I can't remember when I last opened Dolphin (or some other fm).

Same here ;-).

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Thierry