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
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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
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2011-03-21 0:20 Kevin Ryde
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