`wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

`wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Daniel Brockman]

Most people seem to put this command on `r' (as suggested in
wdired.el), but I have also seen people put it on `C-x C-q'.

The newly-installed Emacs guided tour[1] mentions wdired as
the very first example of the power of text manipulation.
It is a little embarrasing that it has to say it like this:

    `M-x dired' invokes Dired, the file manager mode, on a
    directory of your choice. Then `M-x
    wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' switches to Editable Dired
    mode, which looks like this [...]

I suggest binding `r' in `dired-mode-map' to this command.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

[1]  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

RE: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Drew Adams]

> I suggest binding `r' in `dired-mode-map' to this command.

And I'd suggest binding `r', after the release, to a
`dired-rename-this-file' command, such as that in dired+.el:

Code: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/dired%2b.el
Description: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/DiredPlus

IOW, I'd suggest some bindings for commands that treat only the current
line's file. Some of these would be lowercase equivalents for some existing
`dired-do-*' key bindings. Dired+ uses the following key bindings and
`*-this-file' commands, for instance:

b    byte-compile
r    rename
y    relsymlink (but Emacs 22 already uses y)
z    compress
M-u  upcase
M-l  downcase
M-c  capitalize
M-m  chmod
M-p  print
C-k  delete

(There are also "this-file" commands for copy, chgrp, chown, load,
shell-command, symlink, and hardlink, but they are not bound to keys.)

Dired-x uses Y for `dired-do-relsymlink', which is why I use y for the
this-file version. In light of this, I'd also propose moving
`dired-show-file-type' to a key other than y (or else moving
`dired-do-relsymlink' so a key other than Y).

Yes, the uppercase `dired-do-*' bindings will also treat the current line's
file, but they don't do that if there are marked files. IOW, with the
additional lowercase bindings, you can leave files marked and still act on
another file.

All I'm really suggesting now is to reserve the lowercase equivalents of
existing uppercase bindings for possible future this-file analogs.

Re: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Johan Bockgård]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Yes, the uppercase `dired-do-*' bindings will also treat the current line's
> file, but they don't do that if there are marked files. IOW, with the
> additional lowercase bindings, you can leave files marked and still act on
> another file.

You can already do that.

    R runs the command dired-do-rename [...]
    Rename current file or all marked (or next ARG) files.

It operates on the current file when ARG = 1.

-- 
Johan Bockgård

RE: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Drew Adams]

> > Yes, the uppercase `dired-do-*' bindings will also treat the 
> > current line's file, but they don't do that if there are
> > marked files. IOW, with the additional lowercase bindings,
> > you can leave files marked and still act on another file.
> 
> You can already do that.  R ... operates on the current file
> when ARG = 1.

Sure. So think of `r' as a shortcut for `C-1 R'.

Re: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Andreas Schwab]

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

> Yes, the uppercase `dired-do-*' bindings will also treat the current line's
> file, but they don't do that if there are marked files. IOW, with the
> additional lowercase bindings, you can leave files marked and still act on
> another file.

`1 R', etc., does it too.

Andreas.

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Re: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Daniel Brockman]

Drew,

>>> Yes, the uppercase `dired-do-*' bindings will also treat the 
>>> current line's file, but they don't do that if there are
>>> marked files. IOW, with the additional lowercase bindings,
>>> you can leave files marked and still act on another file.
>>
>> You can already do that.  R ... operates on the current file
>> when ARG = 1.
>
> Sure. So think of `r' as a shortcut for `C-1 R'.

There is already a shortcut for that: `1 R'.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

Re: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Stefan Monnier]

> Most people seem to put this command on `r' (as suggested in
> wdired.el), but I have also seen people put it on `C-x C-q'.

I intended to put it on C-x C-q.  I can't remember what made me not do
that, sadly.


        Stefan

Re: `wdired-change-to-wdired-mode' is not on any key

[Davis Herring]

> You can already do that.
>
>     R runs the command dired-do-rename [...]
>     Rename current file or all marked (or next ARG) files.
>
> It operates on the current file when ARG = 1.

Or if ARG is just "C-u"; for some reason I find it easiest to use the
non-numeric prefix argument to mean "this one" (as opposed, I guess, to
"this 1").

Davis

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