From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: dired rename backup file too
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:40:56 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85c51713-6afe-418f-840d-359336c0f3fb@i35g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4d887f1a$0$23751$14726298@news.sunsite.dk
On Mar 22, 3:50 am, Uday Reddy <uDOTsDOTre...@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
haha. Are you being sarcastic? ☺
Dired can edit file names one at a time, just like OS. Wdired lets
you edit names of multiple files at the same time as if it's a text
file. This feature isn't in Windows, Mac, Linux.
Xah
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2011-03-21 14:51 ` dired rename backup file too Xah Lee
2011-03-22 10:50 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-22 12:40 ` Xah Lee [this message]
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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