From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Easy way to rename files sequentially? Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:27:25 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86lk8i4f8y.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87ejeexgfy.fsf@celephais.home.net> <871waeroap.fsf@newsguy.com> <8763zpwje7.fsf@newsguy.com> <3Z53j.7019$_m.4496@bignews4.bellsouth.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196260898 3768 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2007 14:41:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:41:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 15:41:45 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxO6X-0004Sq-Ke for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:41:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxO6I-0006Qh-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:41:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net Ma20bd/w7dRjfrzZQleQoYyWbq6YhULZx3hYLJ+IZOx5rouObtQ6FMiL5AyOL+H9MnCKkYrfu0hA6iCfioEU8OhRAyHuoRK3wyiyRKMtMTdI2ZAVpY3iLCFsbqSnlJMm Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:27:19 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: nvi4NIVBAG9mOZoJBRPWkJn9wuNN3iYS0EkMb3/6NDE= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pmj6MjOOX5qYetcHcXNq911v264= sha1:ZW/rnWBb6QF9SrTzBNwU7J44wlY= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: CDV8cQZpwWbgdhB3cVjJoZzk1z7P0XElEDMBugWXii4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154207 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49635 Archived-At: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 04:17:03 GMT cothrige wrote: c> Do you mean Control-Meta-% (Control-Alt-%)? If so, then how does one c> accomplish that keystroke? It seems to me to be the equivalent of c> Control-Alt-Shift-5, and that doesn't seem to work for me (and seems c> impossible for me to even do with only two hands). How am I c> misreading this? Don't you know you're supposed to use your nose? :) http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/q/quadruplebucky.html As a side note, while wdired is excellent and so is the advice you've received, I should point out the mmv utility which does this kind of renaming easily from the command line, and the analogous Z Shell zmv function. Ted