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From: Uday Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired rename backup file too
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:50:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d887f1a$0$23751$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <252d8155-845e-4eb2-8cef-56b5ba97926f@b13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>

On 3/21/2011 2:51 PM, Xah Lee wrote:

> not a solution to your question, but these days hardly call R anymore,
> but use wdired-change-to-wdired-mode. It has a shortcut since emacs
> 23.1 (Ctrl+x Ctrl+q). (for me, i just aliased it to “rn”).

Kinda funny how it took so long for Emacs to discover that directories 
are editable beasts.  Meanwhile, other Operating Systems like Win32 have 
been editing file names for ages.  GNU is *not Unix*.  We forget that to 
our own detriment.

Cheers,
Uday


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4.1300670284.14871.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-21 14:51 ` dired rename backup file too Xah Lee
2011-03-22 10:50   ` Uday Reddy [this message]
2011-03-22 12:40     ` Xah Lee
2011-03-22 18:43       ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-27  7:14         ` David Combs
2011-03-27  7:09     ` David Combs
2011-03-27  7:08   ` David Combs
2011-03-21  8:01 martin rudalics
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-21  0:20 Kevin Ryde

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